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In article <B2iqXB5w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
>wright@duca.hi.com (David Wright) writes:
>
:  >   The Vedic account of our planetary system is already researched,
:  >   concluded, and perfect. The _Vedas_ state that the moon is 800,000
:  >   miles _farther_ from earth than the sun. 
>
>Actually, the Vedas state that the Moon is 800,000 miles HIGHER than the
>Sun, in the plane of the Bhu-mandala system, not that it is farther away
>in terms of linear distance.

	What's the "Bhu-mandala system"?

	And is the Moon _closer_ in linear distance, or isn't it?

:  This is just too beautiful.  One wonders just how the Vedas account
:  for solar eclipses.

>Eclipses are explained as the result of the planet Rahu passing
>between the sun and the earth, or the moon and the earth. In modern
>astronomy, the planet Rahu is identified as the moon's ascending node,
>which is indeed in line with the sun-moon-earth system during an
>eclipse.

	There is no such thing as a planet separate from the Moon that
causes eclipses. Either the Moon covers up the Sun or the Earth shades
the Moon. This happens when the Moon is near its line of nodes, where
its orbit plane intersects the Earth's orbit plane (the ecliptic). At
other times, the Moon's shadow misses the Earth and the Moon misses
the Earth's shadow, as the case may be.

	Solar Eclipse:

	Sun		Moon	Earth

	Lunar Eclipse:

	Sun			Earth	Moon

	That is why solar eclipses occur only during New Moon and
lunar eclipses only during Full Moon. What more can anyone ask for?
-- 
/Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
/lip@s1.gov