[meteorite-list] Venus May Have Once Had A Moon

[tett]

Pib and List,

Pib kindly wrote:
 "Here is the reference:

T.C. Van Flandern and R.S. Harrington (1976), "A dynamical 
 investigation of the conjecture that Mercury is an escaped satellite 
of Venus", _Icarus_ vol. 28, pp. 435-440."

I tired to find a copy on line but could only scare up an abstract.

Anyone have this article available?

Cheers,

tett




I searched for a copy of the article but can only find an abstract on line.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip R. Burns" <pib at pibburns.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Venus May Have Once Had A Moon


> At 04:12 PM 10/11/2006, Philip R. Burns wrote:
>>At 02:57 PM 10/11/2006, Rob McCafferty wrote:
>>
>>>If log angular momentum is plotted vs log Mass, all
>>>planets fit nicely on a line except Venus and Mercury
>>>(Earth/moon system needs to be combined).
>>>Now since angular momentum is a conserved quantity, it
>>>matters not one jot how far a planet and its moon
>>>drift apart. Combine the angular momentum of Venus and
>>>Mercury and they slot nicely on the line like all the
>>>others.
>>>If some accuse me of favouring an idea which is too
>>>neat, I'd accuse the author of this article of this
>>>article of over-thinking a problem. The peculiar
>>>rotation of venus is rather nicely explained by it
>>>losing a moon, especially one as big as Mercury.
>>
>>I believe the late Robert Harrington (d. 1993) of the U. S. Naval 
>>Observatory proposed many years ago that Mercury was an escaped moon 
>>of Venus.  I don't have the reference to hand, but it shouldn't be 
>>too hard to find.
> 
> Here is the reference:
> 
> T.C. Van Flandern and R.S. Harrington (1976), "A dynamical 
> investigation of the conjecture that Mercury is an escaped satellite 
> of Venus", _Icarus_ vol. 28, pp. 435-440.
> 
> 
> -- Philip R. "Pib" Burns
>    pib at pibburns.com
>    http://www.pibburns.com/
> 
> 
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