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Dr. Georg Wilhelm Waltemath (August 24, 1840 – September 27, 1915) was an astronomer from Hamburg, best known for his 1898 claim of a second moon of Earth as well as a system of tiny moons. It is widely held to be false.
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/ref> He gave detailed information into it which is given below: *Distance from earth: 1030000 km (640000 miles) *Diameter: 700 km (430 miles) * Orbital period: 119 days * Synodic period: 177 days He claimed that it was not normally visible with the naked eye but predicted it would be visible between 2 and 4 February 1898. Twelve claims were made to have seen it at that time but were later proven fraudulent or mistaken by astronomers W. Winkler and Baron Ivo von Benko who had been monitoring the area at the time. Waltemath also claimed that the moon had been sighted previously by Adolphus Greely in Greenland on 24 October 1881 and by painter and personal friend, C. Waller in Munich on 16 February 1897.
Hypothetical Planets
2008. Retrieved 2008-07-07. He named it Lilith. Sepharial claimed that Lilith was a 'dark' moon invisible for most of the time, but he claimed to have viewed it as it crossed the sun. Lilith is still used by some astrologers in their horoscopes. Sepharial took the name Lilith from the medieval Jewish legend, where she is described as the first wife of
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io9 - The Long, Strange Search for Earth's Second Moon(s).
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Dr. Georg Wilhelm Waltemath (August 24, 1840 – September 27, 1915) was an astronomer from Hamburg, best known for his 1898 claim of a second moon of Earth as well as a system of tiny moons. It is widely held to be false.
Second Moon
He is believed to have begun his search for one of the largest satellites which he claimed to exist based on the hypothesis that something was gravitationally affecting the Moon's orbit.Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Summary of the Press Throughout the World on All Important Current Topics, published by Public Opinion Co., 1898: "The Alleged Discovery of a Second Moon", p 369Book
/ref> He gave detailed information into it which is given below: *Distance from earth: 1030000 km (640000 miles) *Diameter: 700 km (430 miles) * Orbital period: 119 days * Synodic period: 177 days He claimed that it was not normally visible with the naked eye but predicted it would be visible between 2 and 4 February 1898. Twelve claims were made to have seen it at that time but were later proven fraudulent or mistaken by astronomers W. Winkler and Baron Ivo von Benko who had been monitoring the area at the time. Waltemath also claimed that the moon had been sighted previously by Adolphus Greely in Greenland on 24 October 1881 and by painter and personal friend, C. Waller in Munich on 16 February 1897.
Third Moon
He later made claims of another Third Moon which he dubbed ''wahrhafter Wetter- und Magnet-Mond'' ("real weather and magnet moon"). According to a mention in the science journal '' Science'' it is 427250 km (265480 miles) away from earth, closer than Waltemath's previous moon, and 746 km (464 miles) in diameter. As Waltemath's claim of the second moon was generally considered to be false, reactions to the third were mostly scoffed at; that same article in ''Science'' considered that "''Perhaps it is also the moon presiding over lunacy''".Similar claims
In 1918,astrologer
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Walter Gornold, also known as ''Sepharial
Walter Gorn Old (born 20 March 1864 in Handsworth, West Midlands, Handsworth, England; died 23 December 1929 in Hove, England) was a 19th-century astrologer, who used the nom-de-plume "Sepharial", after an angel in the apocryphal Book of Enoch.
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'', claimed to have confirmed the existence of Waltemath's moon.Schlyter, PaulHypothetical Planets
2008. Retrieved 2008-07-07. He named it Lilith. Sepharial claimed that Lilith was a 'dark' moon invisible for most of the time, but he claimed to have viewed it as it crossed the sun. Lilith is still used by some astrologers in their horoscopes. Sepharial took the name Lilith from the medieval Jewish legend, where she is described as the first wife of
Adam
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.Graves, Robert and Patai, Raphael. ''Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis.'' New York: Doubleday, 1964, pp. 65-69, , , Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd. (1 October 2004); note this publication refers to "Yalqut Reubeni ad. Gen. II. 21; IV. 8."see
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See also
* Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience *Claimed moons of Earth
Claims of the existence of other moons of Earth—that is, of one or more natural satellites with relatively stable orbits of Earth, other than the Moon—have existed for some time. Several candidates have been proposed, but none have been confi ...
*Frédéric Petit (astronomer)
Frédéric Petit ( Muret, 1810 – Toulouse, 1865) was a French astronomer. He was the first director of the Toulouse Observatory, located in Toulouse, France, serving from 1838 to 1865. In 1846 he announced that he had discovered a second ...
*Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
* Clyde Tombaugh
References
External links
io9 - The Long, Strange Search for Earth's Second Moon(s).
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