The Planets the Earth and Moon

There are several things to note concerning the planets.

1. They all tend toward the center of the stellar gravitational territory that contains them.

They can never arrive at those centers since the sun and stars already occupy the center.

Assuming saturn follows the orbit of the air-aether at circle K

• If saturn had a bit more force to continue its motion in a straight line relative to the air-aether around it, then it would go farther towards outer orbit Y

The air-aether around it at orbit Y would move faster and would be smaller (or at least are not larger) than those at K.

They would give it more force to pass beyond towars F, allowing it to move towards the edge of that system without stopping.

It would easily pass into another territory. Instead of being a planet, it would become a comet.

No star can stop anywhere in all that vast space between circle K and the circumference of the heaven FGGF, through which the comets take their course.

In addition, the planets of necessity cannot have more force to continue their motion in a straight line than have the air-aether at K, when those planets move with the same agitation along with these air-aether. All bodies that have more are comets.

Assuming saturn has less force than the air-aether surrounding it.

• The air-aether between the orbit of jupiter and saturn can divert it towards the orbit of jupiter.
• Once at the orbit of jupiter, saturn will become as strong as the air-aether in that orbit.
• This is because this air-aether there is more agitated than those at K [the orbit of saturn].
  • They will also offer less resistance because they are smaller.

In this case, saturn will remain perfectly balanced in the orbit of jupiter.

But if saturn were at the orbit of jupiter and has even less force to continue its motion in a straight line than the air-aether there, it will again be pushed closer to the sun by the air-aether near the orbot of mars, and so on until it is in an orbit that has air-aether that matches its force.

Thus, there are diverse planets at varying distances from the sun:

• Saturn
• Jupiter
• Mars
• Earth
• Venus
• Mercury.

Of these, the lowest and least massive can reach to the sun’s surface.

But the highest or farthest can never pass beyond orbit K.

The earth-aether beyond circle K are incomparably smaller than the planets.

How can the air-aether have more force than the planets to continue their motion in a straight line?

This force does not depend solely on the quantity of matter in each body, but also on its surface area.

When 2 bodies move equally fast, if one contains twice as much matter as the other, it also has twice as much agitation.

• But it does not follow that it has twice as much force to continue to move in a straight line.
• It will only have twice the force if its surface is also twice than the other body.
  • This is because it will meet twice as many other bodies resisting it, and it will have much less force to continue if its surface is increased more than twice.

The air-aether is completely round.

• Round shapes have the most matter within the least surface.

The planets, on the other hand, are made up of earth-aether with very irregular shapes and sizes.

• They have large surfaces relative to the quantity of their matter.
• Thus, the planets can have a greater surface area to volume ratio than most of these air-aether
  • Yet, the planets have a smaller ratio than some of the smallest air-aether that are closest to the center of the territory.

Given 2 air-aether balls, the smaller ball will have more surface per matter than the large ball.

For example, make 3 clay balls.

• Ball 1 and 2 have the same amount of clay, but Ball 2 is compressed to half the size of Ball 1.
  • Ball 2 would roll farther than Ball 1
• Ball 3 will have much less amount of clay packed into a much smaller ball
  • Ball 3 would not roll farther than Ball 1
• Ball 1 can move farther the more it is compressed and less farther the less it is compressed

This is why of the planets at within orbit K:

• are at varying distances from the sun
• the ones at the outer parts are the largest, most solid, and massive