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COSMOLOGY OLD & NEW
By Prof. G. R. Jain, M. Sc. (Alld)
APPENDIX 'B'
SATELLITES OF THE EARTH The first satellite is the moon, which has a diameter nearly 1/4 th of that of the Earth i, e, a little over 2000 miles and is situated at a distance of 239,000 miles or 60 Mahayojanas from us. Its mass is only 1/81 of that of the Earth, the latter being 5.87x1021 tons. It revolves round the Earth in a circular orbit and takes 27.3 days to complete the revolution. It is on this moon that the man has recently landed.
Till now people believed in only one moon of the Earth but it is not true. Lars Danielsson of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweeden and W. H. IP of the Universtiy of California, San Diego, U.S. A., have recently discovered the second moon of the Earth which has been named TORO. They computed TORO's Orbit and found it to be in consonance with the Earth Moon system. Toro ha; a period of 1-6 years; i. e it takes 1.6 years to go completely round the Earth. At its closest approach it is at a distance of 12-2 million miles or 3000 Mahayojanas from the Earth. Nobel Laureate Hannes Allven and Gustaf Arrhenius, both of the University of California, San Diego (Physics Today, 24, 17) have suggested manned flights to the second moon for further investigation of the solar system.
This agrees quite well with the Jain View that there are two moons of the Earth
The two suns - According to Jain Cosmography there are two suns in Jambu Dvipa revolving round mount Sumerue371, Jambu Dvipa literally means-a land of oval shape with a bulge in the middle resembling a Jambolan fruit. Our Earth is a part of Jambu Dvipa.
According to modern reckoning, our solar system is a part of a galaxy called the Milky way. This galaxy is exactly of the shape of a Jambolan (Jambu Phal). The Solar System is composed of a sun and nine Planets. Out of these Jupiter with its thirteen moons is the most interesting and mysterious planet...
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