I"m sure most people have never heard of the Japanese astronomer Yoshihide Kozai. Why would you? Why would I? Well, I would because of what the Kozai Mechanism tells me in regards to a possible Planet X or Nibiru out there now, and that might be "here in the neighborhood" sometime in the next few years (can you say 2011 to 2013?). And if so, that"s not all that good.
In celestial mechanics, the Kozai mechanism is a secular perturbative effect on certain orbits. It causes changes in the eccentricity and the inclination of the orbit of the perturbed body to be periodic and synchronized, and also causes libration (i.e., oscillation about a constant value) of the argument of pericenter.
The effect was described in 1962 by the Japanese astronomer Yoshihide Kozai, analysing the orbits of the asteroids. Since then the Kozai resonance has been found to be an important factor shaping the orbits of irregular satellites of the planets, trans-Neptunian objects, and a few extrasolar planets and multiple star systems.
Say what?
In essence what effect (in terms of mathematial calculations) does or would a perpendicular orbit have on a circular orbit. More specifically, what effect would 3,600 Planet X orbit have on our earth"s orbit and otehrs in our solar system? If it existed? Like if it caused the ten plagues of Egypt about 3,600 years ago.
For those that love to deal in such incomprehensible mathematical formulas, and whatever else (I leave all that details to them), the proposed Planet X fly-by around 2012 will be the 5th time that it has done so. Don"t ask me how they know that! I don"t plan on being here in 5,732 (the 6th fly-by). I"m just hoping to be around come 2012; however, Mother Shipton has written, "A firey dragon shall cross the sky six times before this world shall die". This coincides with the Kozai mehanism that says when the 6th fly-by happens it will crash.
And just who is Mother Shipton by the way? You don"t want to blow her off. Mother Shipton (1488-1561), was an English soothsayer and prophetess who is said to have made dozens of unusually accurate predictions, including the Great Plague of London, the Spanish Armada, and the Great Fire of London. If she"s right, about the 6th fly-by someone else will ahve to live with that. I just wnat to get to and survive a possible 5th fly-by.
How about you? :-)