I believe that I may have discovered last night that the Sun orbits a 144,500 solar-mass black hole with a period of 767.22 years and a perihelion distance of 1527.1 AU in an orbit having an eccentricity of 0.652754, an inclination of 93.827º, a time of perihelion of August 8, 2002, an ascending node of 170.99º, and a perihelion argument of 264º +-15º.  (I got 5 of the six orbital elements to converge sharply, and I don't yet know why the argument of the perihelion has a variation.  I will try adjusting the velocity directions to see if I can make it converge also.)  The solar orbit I described is centered on the black hole.

 

This recent (August 8, 2002) perihelion passage is interesting because the Earth's oblateness, which had been drifting steadily downward on a straight line suddenly reversed direction around 1998 and began drifting upward. ["A Puzzling Increase in Earth's Oblateness", Physics Today, October 2002, page 17.]

 

This orbit is based on the COBE satellite observation of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy dipole Doppler velocity apex and a Michelson-Morley type interferometer observation by Dayton C. Miller in 1925-1926 and reported by him in "The Ether-Drift Experiment", Reviews of Modern Physics, 5, 202-242 (1933). See also:
http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm
http://www.scieng.flinders.edu.au/cpes/people/cahill_r/HPS11.pdf

I wrote a paper on Miller's 1933 experiment a couple of years ago,
http://home1.gte.net/res00bfl/Millers_Cosmic_Model.htm , and now I'm going to write another one.  This new paper will predict that the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation anisotropy dipole apex has substantial proper motion (as projected onto the celestial sphere of fixed stars), based on the hypothesis that the Sun orbits a black hole as I described in the first paragraph.  What is exciting is that another COBE-type experiment having better resolution, called the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), was launched on June 30, 2001, and the first data release is scheduled for January 2003.  See

By then, the proper motion of the anisotropy dipole apex should be very obvious to the mission data analysts.  But since this result is against prevailing theories, I expect that NASA will not release the data until they can figure out a new theory to explain it.  If I am right about this, it means that Miller was right, and Einstein was wrong about there being no preferred frame of reference and so absolute motion could not be observed.  Einstein's formulas may be correct, but his postulates are wrong.  As Reg Cahill of Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) wrote in the paper cited above, "Einstein essentially arrived at a valid formalism from a wrong assumption."

 

Miller observed the Sun's velocity in 1925-1926 to be 208 km/s in the direction of RA 73.5º, Dec. -70.55º (in Dorado).  My orbit optimization adjusted that velocity to 210.40 km/s without changing the direction.  The COBE satellite observed the Sun's velocity to be 371 km/s in the direction of RA 168.012º, Dec. -6.983º (in Leo) in 1990-1994.  My orbit optimization adjusted that velocity to 359.88 km/s without changing the direction.  These data describe a change in direction of the Sun's velocity vector of about 85 degrees in 66 years.  That is what I mean by substantial proper motion: 1.29 degrees per year.  If the Sun had a circular orbit, its period would be 360/1.29 = 280 years.  But its orbit is elliptical, so it takes longer.

 

What About Planet X?

 

So, what does this black hole have to do with Planet X?  I don't know yet.  The black hole must be perturbing the orbits of the outer planets, and it remains to be seen how much of the observed perturbations are caused by the black hole and how much by Planet X.

 

For the record, I believe that Planet X is about 24.5 AU from the Sun at the present time (between the orbits of Neptune and Uranus).  I believe that its orbit has a perihelion distance of 0.306529 AU, and an eccentricity of 0.998682.  That gives it a semi-major axis of 232.57 AU, an aphelion of 464.84 AU, and a period of 3547 years.  I think it will be deflected by Mercury on March 1, 2012 into a polar orbit that will impact Venus on June 6, 2012.  I believe that this impact may actually turn Venus inside-out, and boost it into an Earth-crossing, retrograde orbit.  This will occur just as Venus is finishing its transit of the Sun from east to west.  If I am right, it will actually reverse its orbit direction, and we will see it transit the Sun again from west to east.  I don't know yet exactly how that can happen, although I have some ideas that I intend to test.

 

Venus would then rendezvous with Earth in late 2012 or early 2013, and that encounter would boost Earth's orbit such that its new aphelion is about half way to Mars.  The inclination of Earth's orbit will also change, I believe, so that its equator and its orbit will be in the same plane.  That would mean perpetual Spring except that its new eccentric orbit would provide ample annual temperature variations to continue the pattern of seasons.  But the whole world would experience the same season at the same time.  The northern hemisphere would jump from early winter to mid-summer, skipping spring altogether, and the southern hemisphere would get two summers in succession without an intervening winter.

 

The same near head-on collision between Earth and Venus would also boost Venus's orbit so that it would either impact Jupiter or be captured by it.  If it is captured, it would become the solar system's second retrograde moon of substantial size, the first being Triton.

 

Although this is still quite speculative, I also suspect that Planet X may have a "brother" that will be deflected by Jupiter into a polar orbit that terminates on Mars.  I think that impact will cause the orbit of Mars to shrink enough to almost meet Earth's expanded orbit.

I know that such a scenario could not possibly happen by chance, and so if it happens, it must be by design.  The main purpose would be to provide the physical means for the rapture, the dividing of the sheep from the goats.  Another purpose would be to transform Mars into a livable planet, and to bring Earth and Mars close enough together so that over the next 1000 years, mankind will be able to physically migrate to Mars and settle there.  The reason for that must be that Earth will become uninhabitable after that 1000 years.  There is ample water and oil and gas under the surface of Mars to support a technologically advanced civilization.

 

Peace,

Glen

 

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Glen W. Deen, BSEE
Dayton C. Miller observed the ether wind: "The Ether-Drift
Experiment" Reviews of Modern Physics, 5, 202-242 (1933).
http://www.glendeen.com