90s, many fairy tales, tales and myths have surfaced. All and sundry tried to found their own sect, a religion named after themselves, for it was almost the most profitable occupation.
Well, any self-respecting sect must have its own mythology and legends. All the most absurd and wild things that an inflamed brain can think of came out. I remember how on TV channels in all seriousness they showed a film in which it was stated that Lenin is a mushroom … thank God this nonsense did not go into circulation. But there was a lot more.
And in about the mid-90s, out of nowhere, information about the three moons began its march across Russia … At first it looked like science fiction discussions. There were science fiction clubs who discussed the likelihood of certain events described in science fiction novels. One of these stories belonged to the pen of science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev was written back in 1971 and was called "Faetes". About the inhabitants of the mysterious planet of the solar system Phaethon, located between Mars and Jupiter.
It is described there that as a result of internecine war, the inhabitants accidentally blew up their own planet and the survivors were forced to travel through space, and as a result ended up on earth, during the Mayan and Aztec times.
Illustration from the Book of * Faetias *.
In general, an interesting book, I recommend it. However, we are distracted.
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The storytellers of the 90s did not really bother coming up with new schemes and simply copied what they knew from childhood. For example, the well-known MMM scam is actually stupidly copied from Nosov's book "Dunno on the Moon", did you not know? and you read)))
In the same way, the Creators of neo-pagan sects did not become too worn out, and thus the phaeton turned into Fatu - the second moon of the earth. And initially it was presented like that - like a shard of a phaeton. But then someone decided to rename it to the beautiful name of Fata - inspired by the Scottish legends about Fat Morgan. And also the Latin word FATUM, meaning destiny.
However, the main rule of charlatans is to talk nonsense with a confident and extremely serious expression. Therefore, the legend did not stop, and after another couple of years, apparently not taking root very much abroad, it began to run only on the territory of the former USSR and began to acquire Slavic features. First, a third moon was added to the heap - Lelya. And then the Latin veil, as unnecessary, transformed into FATTA … not very Slavic, but incomprehensible and very mysterious. Well, to the heap, the moon itself was renamed a month.
Why? Yes, because that's how man is. To support his own authority, he tries to exaggerate and embellish everything … with a serious face by itself.
From now on, any self-respecting sorcerer with full confidence in his face claimed that he had almost personally seen the ancient Slavic records of three moons.
To be honest, for some time I also sincerely believed in this legend, until I began to be interested in sources. The strongest argument for me personally was the presence of three moons in one of the periods of the existence of the Ottoman Empire on its flag.
However, there can be many interpretations of this phenomenon, but there are no real records of the three moons. Well, apart from the statements of some prominent gurus of alternative ways of extorting money from the population. As soon as you try to find a source of information about the three moons, all you will find are references by various authors since the mid-nineties. All. You will not find ANY historical source. Well, perhaps that some images of incomprehensible stars on equally incomprehensible artifacts, which, if desired, can be interpreted as you like - as far as imagination is enough.
Moreover, if you start to seriously dig in the historical archives, you suddenly catch yourself thinking that at some point not a single moon was possible.
This is all the more strange because the bullying, which is common for alternative versions, is absent in this case and is even quietly encouraged. There are no serious comments from scientists that there were three moons! They get around this question when they criticize alternatives.
Prominent heroes of alternative sciences have long included in their theories both Biela's comet and three moons, about which this comet successively knocks and then falls to the ground.
Beauty.
But what is the point of this fireworks, if the very ordinary moon is so full of mysteries?
Let's try to figure it out by again simulating the situation on a computer simulator.
In the last series, you and I have modeled the very possibility of the destruction of a huge asteroid in Earth's orbit into fine dust. And they turned out to be right - such a possibility really exists. But some especially attentive viewers noticed that in the last simulation I had no moon. This is not a mistake - I did remove it
But first, let's go back to the simulation without the moon again and try all the same to zhahn asteroid on the planet without waiting for it to fall apart. I wonder how the program will simulate its fall? go.
This simulation shows the fall of a 180 kilometer asteroid. As they say, look and find 10 differences … By the way, your orbital bombardment with bombs comes in handy. Well, something like that … You can't be cute by force, so some will continue to sacredly believe that the Sandwich Islands were simply soapy. It just lathered rocks over a hundred meters above the water. And the top of the largest southern Sandwich Island rises above the sea for almost three kilometers … well … the water brought - soap … but what is it?)
Thus, in my humble opinion, it is quite obvious that the northern, equatorial and southern traces are certainly traces left over from the fall of large asteroids of at least 200 km in diameter. And they just went out of orbit and not stupidly crashed. They were in orbit around the earth for quite some time before falling. This is confirmed by the relatively low velocity of the fall and the large smooth angle of entry into the atmosphere, which is characteristic precisely for de-orbit.
Then why did I deliberately remove the moon from the simulation, since everything is so great? Now let's add it and see what happens.
In the meantime, our asteroid flies peacefully in its orbit around the earth, I will explain something. The fact is that, as I explained in previous series, the capture of an asteroid into orbit is only possible in rather unique circumstances. Namely - he must walk for some time close to the ground on parallel courses and with a very small difference in speed. How this happened - I will explain in other series, this is a separate topic.
So, with parallel courses, the Earth begins to attract the object to itself from the side. Therefore, its orbit turns out to be elongated.
And while he is on it, it is conventionally divided into two parts - the first half of the orbit passes near the earth at maximum speeds, and therefore does not last long. But the second part of the orbit, even if it seems smaller than the first, but the asteroid spends much more time on it and therefore easily finds itself at the mercy of the Moon.
Each time it passes near an asteroid, the Moon drastically changes its orbit, making it extremely unstable. And here any options are possible. Although in most cases the moon throws the stone far beyond the earth, there are other things as well. It happens that she, on the contrary, provokes him to hit the ground. And it happens that it takes a hit.
And in any case, the presence of the moon speeds up the process by orders of magnitude, makes it poorly predictable, and the whole whirlwind around the earth can be completed within six months or a year.
Thus, if an asteroid or asteroids were orbiting the earth for several years, then when they did the moon in orbit it WAS NOT EXACTLY.
Dissertation on the topic of three moons.
So well good. Well, let's say all the same, the asteroid has an elongated orbit. But the moon is round. what happens if three moons are placed in different circular orbits inside each other, as the legend says?
So we put three moons in a row. Correct their rotation period. We set the first one for seven days. The second has 14. the third has 28.
Go.
Well that's all. less than a year has passed. One moon became a short-period asteroid between the sun and the earth's orbit, the second occupied an orbit between Venus and the Earth, and the third remained in orbit, only slightly closer to the Earth.
And mind you - none of them hit the ground! why?.. The fact is that the more massive the object, the more difficult it is to collide with another one.
This is due to the fact that approaching each other, they shift the mutual gravitational center and begin to rotate together around it. In the end, the smaller object gets a gravitational kick and flies away into the unknown jungle of space. Sometimes while losing some part of yourself.
Someone might argue that perhaps the three moons had different radii and masses, which allowed them to exist peacefully in their orbits. Well, let's do this experiment too. Let's give each of the three moons half the size of the previous one.
that is, respectively, the radius of 1800 km, 950 km, and 425 km. In this situation, they will seem almost the same from the ground. Go?
So what does it all mean? that there were no three moons? did not have. It couldn't be, at least for a long time. Fortunately or unfortunately, this is nothing more than a beautiful invention. But I am haunted by the calm attitude towards her from the officials. It seems to me that this invention plays into their hands great, distracts attention and successfully hides something global and terrible that happened to us in the recent past …