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A recent scientific paper shatters long-held beliefs about our solar system's history
and affirms one of the most radical tenets of the Electric Universe paradigm.
For many decades scientists have believed that meteorites,
as well as comets and asteroids,
are the so-called leftovers from the solar system's formation.
Meteorites have long been thought to have formed in a primordial dust cloud,
billions of years ago,
but a recent graduate of Florida State University named Jonathan Oulton,
together with his colleagues, analyzed pieces of the meteorite,
called Gujba, and has found that its geological origins
are much too complex for standard theory to explain.
It seems conclusioned that the meteorite
formed from the molten debris of a planetary collision in the asteroid belt.
The Phys.org report on these findings states;
"Based on chemical traces preserved in Gujba,
the target planet might have been even larger than the asteroid 4 Vesta,
one of the largest bodies in the asteroid belt
with a diameter of about 326 miles or 525 kilometers.
One of the lead investigator says of the discovery;
People used to say that meteorites like Gujba were the building blocks of the solar system.
Now, we know it's the construction debris of the planets.
The phys.org report states that the findings
"Shattered previous theories about when and how this meteorite had formed."
However, the Electric Universe theory, as developed by physicist Wal Thornhill,
has always been that meteorites, as well as comets and asteroids,
were excavated from planets and moons.
Although not for mechanical collisions,
which are the only mechanism available in standard planetary science,
rather these bodies were removed electrically by interplanetary thunderbolts
in a relatively recent period of chaos in the inner solar system.
Indeed, many landmark discoveries in recent years have affirmed
the electric interpretation of comet asteroid and meteorite origins.
For decades, scientists have puzzled over the origins of glassy beads
found in stony meteorites, called chondrules.
The theory of meteorite origins in a primordial dust cloud did not allow
for the extreme heating and sudden cooling required for the chondrules formation.
In 2013, a scientific study suggested a surprising conclusion
that lightning within the theoretical protoplanetary disk could explain the mystery.
As space.com report on the study stated;
"Rocks melted in the early solar system after electrical currents
spiked through the cloud of dust circling around the young Sun..."
Unfortunately, like this latest finding on the planetary origins of meteorites,
many surprising comet, asteroid and meteorite discoveries
have yet to force a reassessment of our solar system's history.
Rather, special conditions and ad-hoc adjustments are invoked
to preserve "consensus theory".
A glaring example of this was seen in the aftermath
of NASA's Stardust mission to the coment Wild 2 in 2004.
Mission scientists have never dreamt that the tiny fragments of comet dust
brought back to Earth had not accreted in the deep freeze of interstellar space.
The name of the mission itself was based on the assumption of
comet formation in a primordial interstellar cloud.
Nevertheless it had to be admitted that the complex crystalline structures
were formed under astonishingly high temperatures.
Mineral inclusions ranged from Anorthite
which is made up of calcium, sodium, aluminum and silicon
to Diopsid made of calcium, magnesium and silicon.
Formations of such minerals require temperatures in the range of thousands of degrees.
NASA curator Michael Zolensky said;
"That's a big surprise. People thought comets would just be cold stuff that formed out ...
where things are very cold...It was kind of a shock to not just find one but several of these,
which implies they are pretty common in the comet."
Investigators were forced to conclude that the enigmatic particles
formed at a superheated region, either close to our Sun or close to an alien star.
Stardust principal investigator Donald Brownlee said;
"In the coldest part of the solar system we've found samples that formed at extremely high temperatures.
When these minerals formed they were either red hot or white hot grains,
and yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the Solar System".
Some scientists speculated that perhaps something occurred
in or very near the Sun in its formative phase
flinging immense quantities of material out to the periphery of the Sun's domain,
far far beyond the orbit of Pluto, all the way to the theoretical Oort cloud.
Then the investigators reminded themselves that this would produce a mixing of material,
contradicting the zoning that is evident in the asteroid belt.
Michael Zolensky asked;
"If this mixing is occurring, as suggested by these results,
then how do you preserve any kind of zoning in the solar system.
It raises more mysteries".
A 2007 report states that parts of Wild 2 formed in an area close to the Sun.
The SpaceDaily.com website writes;
"The X-ray and isotopic analyses point to gas acquisition in a hot,
high ion flux nebular environment close to the young sun".
A few have suggested that a "transient heating events"
such a shocks or indeed lightning in the outer regions of the protoplanetary disk,
may have created the anomalous minerals in the Wild 2 dust samples.
NASA's Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta
also recently gave a jolt to the story of our solar system's origins.
Scientists had theorized that the asteroid is a "planet embryo"
that came into existence at the same time as the Solar System.
This theory states that the asteroid suffered an enormous
"double meteorite impact" that dug tens of kilometers deep,
and would have ejected material under the asteroid surface.
Since Olivine is a main component of planetary mantles,
the investigators expected to find it in abundance near the so-called impact craters
but no olivine was detected.
As the website Science Daily reports these findings;
"Challenge a fundamental component in planet formation models,
namely the composition of the original cloud of matter that aggregated together,
heated, melted and then crystallized to form planets."
Sadly, no consideration has been given to the possibility that the asteroid is not primordial.
Nor have theorists asked if the pervasive cratering might have occurred through
any process other than impacts across eons of solar system's history.
In fact, cratering by impact seems profoundly unlikely
as in the case of the large crater on the Martian moon Phobos.
An impact of sufficient energy to create the largest Vesta crater
would have surely shattered the body.
Today the startling truth is that no coherent and reliable story
of our solar system's birth and evolution remains.
And the theory of comets, asteroids and meteorites is entirely in flux.
Yet new pathways of discovery are waiting to be found in our electric universe.
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