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Astronaut, v. 1, issue 1, September 1947

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should have been formed, but had been prevented from doing so by the gigantic gravitational pull of Jupiter. 
There are arguments on both sided of this question, but the more recent astronomical works would seem to favor the hypothesis of the exploded planet. In "Between the Planets" by Fletcher G. Watson is an opinion given as of 1941: "... Any body solidifying in space under its own gravitational attraction will assume a spherical shape... We must conclude then that these little bodies are the wiring fragments of some celestial catastrophe."
Samuel Butler treats the subject at length in the appendix to his book, "Solar Biology". He says, in part: "It is the opinion of many that the material compromising the planetoids...is the fragments of a planet which from some internal or other cause has been destroyed...Isiah makes reference to Lucifer as having fallen from his shining position in the heavens... This would be literally true if the planet had been destroyed...
"We are led to the conclusion that there may once have existed a planet that we shall designate as Lucifer, which occupied that position of the planetoids... The 'morning star' was vanished, and where once was unity, light and power, we now have but a confused mass of planetoids moving in eccentric orbits..."
In an article in "The Sphinx" for December, 1907, Anna Pharos says, "...we find traces of an appalling cataclysm... in the fact of there being between Jupiter and Mars the ruins, fragments and debris of what was once a great world, a planet of our solar system. 
"Now it must be that in the ancient days, when this wreckage was a great world, it must have had a zodiacal house the same as its companion planets of our solar system; and...when this planet in fort was dashed to atoms, and its god hurled headlong into hell, of course its place in the heavens became a waste, and its constellation became lost..."
It was once believed possible to locate the point where the original planet-shattering explosion occurred, by back-tracking all the planetoids to a common point in their orbits. But this task has been complicated to impossibility by the gravitational attraction of the other planets, particularly Jupiter, which has in many cases pulled certain asteroids far away from Jupiter, which has in many cases pulled certain asteroids fast away from ripped Lucifer into thousands of pieces. This problem, and that of determining the original size of the vanished planet, must wait for solution until astronomical science has progresses far beyond the point it occupies today. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY:   Between the Planets, by Fletcher G. Watson; Solar Biology, by Samuel Butler; The Evolution of Worlds, by Percival Lowell; The Procession of Planets, by Franklin G. Heald; "The Eleusinian Mysteries," by Anna Pharos, in "The Sphinx", December, 1907.

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should have been formed, but had been prevented from doing so by the gigantic gravitational pull of Jupiter. There are arguments on both sided of this question, but the more recent astronomical works would seem to favor the hypothesis of the exploded planet. In "Between the Planets" by Fletcher G. Watson is an opinion given as of 1941: "... Any body solidifying in space under its own gravitational attraction will assume a spherical shape... We must conclude then that these little bodies are the wiring fragments of some celestial catastrophe." Samuel Butler treats the subject at length in the appendix to his book, "Solar Biology". He says, in part: "It is the opinion of many that the material compromising the planetoids...is the fragments of a planet which from some internal or other cause has been destroyed...Isiah makes reference to Lucifer as having fallen from his shining position in the heavens... This would be literally true if the planet had been destroyed... "We are led to the conclusion that there may once have existed a planet that we shall designate as Lucifer, which occupied that position of the planetoids... The 'morning star' was vanished, and where once was unity, light and power, we now have but a confused mass of planetoids moving in eccentric orbits..." In an article in "The Sphinx" for December, 1907, Anna Pharos says, "...we find traces of an appalling cataclysm... in the fact of there being between Jupiter and Mars the ruins, fragments and debris of what was once a great world, a planet of our solar system. "Now it must be that in the ancient days, when this wreckage was a great world, it must have had a zodiacal house the same as its companion planets of our solar system; and...when this planet in fort was dashed to atoms, and its god hurled headlong into hell, of course its place in the heavens became a waste, and its constellation became lost..." It was once believed possible to locate the point where the original planet-shattering explosion occurred, by back-tracking all the planetoids to a common point in their orbits. But this task has been complicated to impossibility by the gravitational attraction of the other planets, particularly Jupiter, which has in many cases pulled certain asteroids far away from Jupiter, which has in many cases pulled certain asteroids fast away from ripped Lucifer into thousands of pieces. This problem, and that of determining the original size of the vanished planet, must wait for solution until astronomical science has progresses far beyond the point it occupies today. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Between the Planets, by Fletcher G. Watson; Solar Biology, by Samuel Butler; The Evolution of Worlds, by Percival Lowell; The Procession of Planets, by Franklin G. Heald; "The Eleusinian Mysteries," by Anna Pharos, in "The Sphinx", December, 1907.