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CHAPTER SIX. THE PLANETARY ASCENDING NODES.

The Planetary Ascending Nodes are “all clumped together” in a manner that the laws of physics cannot explain. This is just a further “inexplicable feature” of The Solar System.

Here is a scan of a table which provides the numerical values of (the angles of) The Ascending Nodes of The Planets. This table is a scan from the book Text-Book on Spherical Astronomy, by W.M.Smart, Regius Professor of Astronomy in The University of Glasgow from 1937 to 1959, published Cambridge, at The University Press, 1971, page 422 (Appendix C).  

Now here is an image actually showing these angles. Each ANGLE is depicted as a SINGLE LINE RADIUS of the circle. You can see at a glance that all the angles for The Planets are "all bunched up", and clustered together, whereas the angles for a selection of Asteroids are NOT "all bunched up" and clustered together. The question is:- Why does this "bunching up" occur in this manner JUST FOR THE PLANETS?

QUESTION:- Could this “bunching up” of the Ascending Nodes of the planets be a mere chance occurrence? The odds against chance occurrence depend on exactly how you ask the question. We see that Mercury holds the “highest position” in the “cluster” of Ascending Nodes. How improbable is it that all the other seven planetary Ascending Nodes would be no further than (131.339 minus 47.857) = 83.482 degrees BELOW Mercury? When you ask the question in this manner, the answer comes out as odds against chance occurrence of one chance in

1 ÷ [(83.482 ÷ 360)7] = 27,731

Alternatively, you could ask the question in a different manner. What are the chances of the Ascending Nodes of all the other seven planets being no further than 83.483 degrees from the Ascending Node of Mercury?

In that case, the odds are one chance in 1 ÷ {[(83.482 x 2) ÷ 360]7} = 216

What makes it even more inexplicable is that these angles are very very slowly changing, and at different rates for each planet. In that case, The Ascending Nodes SHOULD be "scattered" all over the 360 degrees of the circle, and NOT "bunched up" in this manner. To show that these angles really are slowly changing, here is a scan from the book The Principles of Astronomy Designed for the use of Students in The University, by Rev. S. Vince, Plumian Professor of Astronomy, published Cambridge, 1799, page 137. 

The fact of the "bunching up" of Planetary Ascending Nodes has been previously noticed in The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 8, New Series, Jan to April, 1859, pages 130 to 131.