To Craig

If you wish to remain with a cartoon astronomical creation then be my
guest but there has to be room for people to appreciate real
astronomical principles such as the correct resolution for retrogrades.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...2000_tezel.gif

The person who sees a faster Earth taking an inner orbital circuit
overtaking the slower outer planets will be a Copernican/Keplerian
heliocentrist for this is how retrogrades are resolved.

A person who retains the stellar background and believes that only by
jumping to the Sun are retrogrades resolved will be a cataloguer and a
Newtonian* .

* "For to the earth they [ planetary orbital motions] appear sometimes
direct, sometimes stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from
the sun they are always seen direct.."

http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/phaenomena.htm

An intelligent person would correct Newton's awful mangling of what
retrogrades actually are but then again,you freaks believe the wrong
value for axial rotation in order to support Newton's cartoon
astronomical conceptions that destroy heliocentricity by keeping the
stellar background -

"PHÆNOMENON IV.
That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the five
primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the
earth about the sun, are in the sesquiplicate proportion of their mean
distances from the sun."

So,there is nothing left to destroy,all you can do is not give Harrison
his due,destroy the works of Copernicus,Kepler and Roemer, wreck the
pre-Copernican principles behind the equable 24 hour day and all
because of the convenience of tying a telescope to a celestial sphere
and the calendar system.Tedious !!,nothing more tedious that existing
with insincerity.