The missing Mayan star

There are many unsolved mysteries in the solar system we live on: where there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter among the nine planets, there are tens of millions of asteroids; the eight planets are all It rotates from west to east, except Venus in the opposite direction; Uranus always rotates in orbit around the sun. Although these mysteries need to be solved by future scientific developments, there is still one problem that has troubled astronomers so far: the large planet that disappeared between Mars and Jupiter - Maya (tentatively called it)

The Mayan civilization that lived on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Americas 4,500 years ago has always been one of the most mysterious and magical civilizations on our planet. The Mayans were very important in astronomy and calendar , and has made breathtaking and brilliant achievements in architecture, medicine, mathematics and other fields.

Incredible calendar achievements

The Mayans knew about the existence of Uranus and Neptune. They calculated their Mayan calendar to 40,000 years later, and the calendar they could continue to use calculated to 64 million years. Before, they calculated that the Venusian year was 584 days and the Earth year was 365.2420 days (and the current accurate calculation is 365.2422 days)

Today’s astronomers and historians call their religious sacrificial year (Drow) The Golden Year) is set as a year of 260 days, divided into 13 months, with 20 days in each month, which is determined by their religious rituals. Therefore, some people think that since the Venus year and the Earth year are determined for Venus and the Earth, the Dzolkin year must be closely related to another mysterious celestial body. However, there is no celestial body in the solar system with a revolution period of 260 days. So some people asked whether the Mayans were aliens. The planet they lived on exploded for unknown reasons, and they "immigrated" to Earth before the explosion of their home planet, so the 260-day chronology is their beautiful memory of this planet.

Has any planet exploded in the solar system? There is the famous "Tydeus-Bode" rule in astronomy

"Tydeus-Bode" rule

In 1772, the German astronomer Bode proposed a rule for planetary distances in his "Guide to Starry Sky Research". The main content is: take 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 , 96... Add 4 to each number in such a sequence and divide by 10 to get the approximate distance from the major planets to the sun. For example: the average distance from Mercury to the sun is: (4)/10=0.4 (astronomical units); the average distance from Venus to the sun is: (3+4)/10=0.7; the average distance from the earth to the sun is: (6+4)/10=1.0. Mars is: the average distance from the sun (12+4)/10=1.6. According to this, the average distance from the next planet to the sun should be: (24+4)/10= 2.8. But there is no planet at this distance. There are no other celestial bodies. Bode believed that there must be a planet that had not yet been discovered. According to the rule of thumb, continue to calculate, the average distance from Jupiter to the sun is: (48+4)/10=5.2, the average distance from Saturn to the sun is (96+4)/10=10, and their actual distances are also So similar! ! ? Therefore, many astronomers believe that there should be a large planet at the position of 2.8 (between Mars and Jupiter). Therefore, Bode appealed to other astronomers to work together to find this "missing" planet. But after several years, nothing was found, and everyone was disheartened. At this time (1781), the British astronomer Herschel accidentally discovered Uranus, the seventh largest planet in the solar system. But what is even more incredible is that Uranus The average distance from the sun is 19.2 astronomical units, which is in good agreement with the rule: (192+4)/10=19.6 astronomical units.

Another 20 years passed, and in 1801, Piazzi, director of the Sicily Observatory in Italy, discovered a new celestial body. The calculated average distance from the sun was 2.77 astronomical units, which was consistent with the 2.8 astronomical units calculated by the rule. So similar, this planet was named "Ceres". According to the measurement, the diameter of Ceres should be more than 700 kilometers (remeasured to 1020 kilometers). Now everyone is confused. Shouldn't it be a "big" planet? Why is it the little guy? Later astronomers discovered Pallas (about the same size as Ceres) Juno and Vesta between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Until now, more than 4,000 asteroids have been discovered (later estimated to be 1.5 million). Why do large planets become asteroids: Did they explode for some unknown reason? With the discovery of Neptune and Pluto, the rule encountered setbacks (according to the rule, the average distance between Neptune and the sun is calculated to be (384+4)/10=38.8, while the actual distance is 30.2 astronomical units, and Neptune is (768+4) /10=77.2 The actual measured distance is 39.6. This issue has caused constant debate among astronomers. The "Tydeus-Bode" rule and the mystery of the planet explosion at "2.8" have become the mystery of the century. .

The Mayan star 65 million years ago

According to the above hypothesis, some people believe that this exploded planet is the cradle of Mayan habitation. The former Soviet astronomer Safalsky gave this The planet was named "Phaedon" a beautiful Greek name. The diameter and mass of the planet were calculated. The diameter is 6,000 kilometers, the mass is 1/15 of the Earth, and the revolution period is 260 days.

So some good people put forward the theory of explosion and speculated on the cause of the explosion.

About 65 million years ago, a planet with a diameter of more than 10,000 kilometers and a super massive mass Under the influence of some kind of energy traction and the gravity of the sun, the planet rushed into our solar system at an extremely high speed. The first thing it encountered was Neptune, and it had a violent collision with Neptune. The collision caused Neptune to break away from its original orbit and carry its moons and debris into the solar system. After Neptune flew more than one billion kilometers, it completely got rid of the big planet and stayed in its new orbit around the sun (today's 30.2 astronomical units). Then the big planet hit the outer layer of Saturn and its surroundings one after another. Moons, the outer layers of Jupiter and its satellites. Finally, it accidentally crashed into Maya, a highly developed planet in the solar system where the Mayans lived.

The hit Maya split into countless small satellites, forming Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta and other famous asteroids, but the Mayans who immigrated to the earth early survived tenaciously, and created a splendid prehistoric civilization in 65 million years, wrote the chronicles of the Mayan planets, and created the Tzolkin Year and the Earth Year. The old legislation is coordinated and used to show nostalgia for the hometown.

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