How We Acquired Planets In The Sagittarius Stream

Introduction 

Our solar system’s unique layout with four rocky planets, three of which are in the Habitable Zone, and four gas giants in the outer solar system stands apart from all other class G star systems. This paper presents an original hypothesis that around 4.5 billion years ago within a dense trail of stars we call the Sagittarius Stream the Sun captured Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons from one or more passing stars in the Stream, indicating that such planetary exchanges may actually be common, but only in something like the Stream. We will also look at the Electric Universe theories about planetary capture 6,000 years ago and show that the Grand Tack explains the solar system without any need for recent planetary captures.

Ancient rock carvings and Sumerian myths support the Electric Universe hypothesis, which also could explain Venus’s backward spin and Saturn’s rings, but the Electric Universe theory by Wal Thornhill and others that claimed Saturn was a brown dwarf star is dismissed since the Solar System’s mass is far too low for that, but Saturn was still captured at some point, and so were the 2 ice planets, and we have never found an Earth-sized planet in the Habitable Zone or Goldilocks Zone of any class G star after looking at well over 80,000 of them, including 2,000 that were edge on so that we could count the planets. That's why they shifted the goalposts and now look at red dwarf stars and massive super earths for planets in the “habitable zone.”

Our Place In The Galaxy

Our Solar System travels in the Sagittarius Stream, a ribbon of stars from a small galaxy being torn apart by the Milky Way. It loops down then over the Milky Way’s north pole and heads south towards its disk, and we are currently about 55 light-years above the galactic plane of the Milky Way as shown by recent studies of M-class red giant stars. Unlike most class G stars like the Sun which usually have small rocky planets packed in close, or a single gas giant close to the star, our solar system’s wide spread is unique. The Electric Universe theory by Wal Thornhill and others claimed that Saturn was originally a brown dwarf star that became a planet, but the Solar System’s total mass outside of the sun is less than 1.5 Jupiter masses, which is far below the minimum 13 Jupiter masses needed for a brown dwarf star.

This paper introduces an original hypothesis: that the Sun did capture Saturn like in the Saturn Myth, but from other stars in the Sagittarius Stream’s dense flow, and instead of capturing the Earth and Venus along with Saturn 6,000 years ago, we captured Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 4.5 billion years ago. And then according to the computer models it was only because we had Saturn that Jupiter was drawn back away from the Sun in the Grand Tack, creating our unique arrangement of multiple planets in the Habitable Zone of a Class G Yellow Dwarf star like our sun from their debris trail.

Planetary Capture

The Sagittarius Stream is the remnants of a small galaxy called the Dwarf Sagittarius Elliptical that the Milky Way is in the process of consuming. It now circles the Milky Way in multiple vertical looping streamers that take around 550 to 750 million years to complete their vertical orbits. Recent studies from 2022 (Gaia DR3) of M-class red giants in the Sagittarius Stream show that 70% are pulled into a spiral arm of the Milky Way and do not make it through the disk to continue south to loop back into the Stream and go for another vertical loop of the Milky Way.

The Sagittarius Stream’s stars move at about 1.4 million km/h relative to the Milky Way, creating potentially close encounters in its crowded flow. When it does enter the Galactic Plane of the Milky Way our Sun will definitely be pulled into a spiral arm due to its lower mass compared to the red giants which are 1.5 to 5 solar masses.

Within the Sagittarius Stream’s crowded flow the Sun had to have passed close to one or more stars, according to xAI’s Grok the donor stars were likely smaller ones about 80% of the Sun’s size, and the planetary captures happened when the planets came within roughly 150 times the Earth-Sun distance. The Sun may have already had Jupiter and some first-generation small rocky inner planets inside the orbit of Mercury, but these passing stars carried Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons, and Jupiter’s gravity pulled these planets away from their stars, possibly from multiple different stars in the Stream’s dense environment. Like a thick fog of gas and stars, the Stream’s debris slows passing stars, aiding in their capture. Electric currents in space like giant lightning bolts may have helped to tug the planets into place, as detailed in the Electric Universe theory. Such planetary exchanges may be extremely common in the Sagittarius Stream’s chaotic, condensed flow.

Orbit Stabilization

After planetary capture and the Grand Tack, the debris left behind from the moons of Jupiter and Saturn smashing into each other coalesced into the inner rocky planets and the asteroid belt. Jupiter’s gravity locked Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune at their current distances, with Mars, Earth and Venus forming in the Habitable Zone.

Early Evidence of Saturn’s Rings

Long before telescopes discovered the rings of Saturn just a few hundred years ago, ancient peoples said that Saturn had a ring. At some point in the past a moon was torn apart near Saturn forming its rings, which was depicted as a “halo” in the Sumerian stories like those of Enki. Venus is another anomaly from ancient times, it is far too hot for its location at the inner edge of the Habitable Zone, and we now also know that Venus has a comet-like plasma tail that currently stretches fairly far, and a few thousand years ago people described Venus as a comet with a long visible tail, like the Sumerian “Tiamat.” Both indicate a significantly different solar system just a few thousand years ago, but what caused all of those effects is unknown.

All over the world there are rock carvings of stick men with duck heads and arms raised with 2 spots to the sides of their bodies that have been shown to be exact 2D replicas of plasma that can be formed in labs, indicating that everyone saw these glowing figures in the sky. Something happened in our solar system around 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, but what it was we may never know. What we do know is that our solar system is unique and that we haven't found any other near Earth-sized planets orbiting in the Habitable Zone of any stars like our sun, and we have 3, Mars, Earth, and Venus. Then there are the planetary tilts and angles in our solar system. Saturn is 27° similar to the Earth at 23°, but Uranus is basically on its side, which is a huge clue that indicates that it was a captured planet from another star system in the Sagittarius Stream that we captured along with Saturn.

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