On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 9:02:57 AM UTC+1, Sam Wormley wrote:
Space Weather Message Code: WARK06
Serial Number: 283
Issue Time: 2015 Aug 23 0800 UTC

WARNING: Geomagnetic K-Index of 6 expected

The original heliocentric astronomers had ventured into the causes of orbital motion even without knowing anything about electromagnetic conditions that prevail through space. The prevalent notion right up to the time that it all went sideways with Newton's so-called 'Rule 3' was that the rotation of a larger object carried a smaller celestial object around in an orbit like a leaf in a whirlpool -

"The Sun and the Earth rotate on their own axes...The purpose of this
motion is to confer motion on the planets located around them;on the
six primary planets in the case of the Sun,and on the moon in the case
of the Earth.On the other hand the moon does not rotate on the axis of
its own body,as its spots prove " Kepler

As the tides are most sensitive to this electromagnetic influences, the original empiricists before Newton considered this 'imparting' feature which is discussed in the 1666 work of Wallis -


http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.o....full.pdf+html

Of course , in the 21st century, we have the solar system's galactic orbital motion to enter the mix but this is hampered by nonsensical things like 'warped space' instead of the grounding in electromagnetism. Trying to join experimental sciences with planetary or solar system dynamics directly is so costly as it detracts from normal working language which looks at the clues for electromagnetic signatures including the tides and the position of the moon within that field or planetary bow shocks -

http://inspirehep.net/record/792963/plots

These things are interesting in a speculative sort of way but with this era intent of sticking with a useless narrative inherited from the late 17th century ideology which stopped genuine research ( Wallis is a good example) dead in its tracks all because of an overreaching 'method' -

"Rule III. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither [intensification] nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever." Newton

With so much contemporary data and few who can actually get into the tortured distortions of Newton,this may present an intractable problem unless people just get on with looking at the original scheme which implies electromagnetic influences and greater and lesser rotations on different celestial scales - motion of the galaxy-motion of the Sun- motion of the planets - motion of the moons.