COMETS & METEOR STREAMS
Ghosts Were Comets?
I just wrote GREAT FALL FLOOD & COMETS, which shows that the Great Flood occurred in November if the Septuagint Bible is correct. Several catastrophists have surmised that ancient cataclysms occurred in November, because the Earth goes through the Taurid meteor stream at that time of year. The stream was created by debris from Comet Encke. They figure that there were many more large objects in that stream initially, so every year there was a chance that a large meteor would hit Earth and possibly kill people while Earth crossed the stream. Collisions wouldn’t necessarily occur every year, but fairly often initially and gradually less often as large objects became depleted from the stream over centuries. Anyway, the Great Flood may have started when Earth crossed the Taurid meteor stream. The asteroid that broke up Pangaea during the latter period of the Flood might also have come from the Taurid stream. Earth crosses the stream twice a year. See ELECTRIC CATACLYSMIC HISTORY for more about the Flood and other ancient cataclysms.
I copied Charles Chandler’s writings on comets at https://electricastrophysics.substack.com/p/comets and at https://electricastrophysics.substack.com/i/152781352/meteors-comets-asteroids. But the following is new and is based on his model.
1. Comet models of mainstream, EU, and EA (Chandler) — and which is most plausible
Mainstream astronomy treats comets as icy bodies whose jets come from sublimating ice, which explains thermal behavior but struggles with jets far from the Sun, jets from shadowed regions, and the rocky surfaces seen by probes. The Electric Universe model says comets are rocky, electrically active bodies whose jets are electrical arcs, explaining non‑thermal jets but requiring large‑scale charge separation that is not widely accepted. Charles Chandler’s Electric Astrophysics proposes a hybrid: comets are rocky bodies with some volatiles, and their jets come from electrostatic sputtering and plasma‑sheath instabilities, not sublimation or giant arcs. Chandler’s model is the most physically grounded because it uses known dusty‑plasma physics and explains both rocky nuclei and non‑thermal jets without requiring extreme electrical potentials.
2. How moon collisions etc. can create comets
A collision between two moons in the outer solar system can eject rocky and volatile‑rich fragments into heliocentric orbit, producing bodies that behave exactly like comets. In mainstream terms, these fragments are icy rubble piles; in EU terms, they are electrically active rocky fragments; in Chandler’s terms, they are rocky bodies with plasma sheaths capable of sputtering jets. Such collisions naturally produce multiple daughter comets, dust bands, and meteor streams, because the debris spreads along the orbit and fragments further. This mechanism is compatible with all three comet models and is one of the most plausible ways to generate a large debris complex like the Taurid stream.
A moon‑moon collision is physically possible around any planet, but the outcome depends on the planet’s gravity well. To create a comet, fragments must escape the planet’s Hill sphere and enter solar orbit. This is easy around outer‑solar‑system giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) because:
• their moons are icy → fragments behave like comets
• their Hill spheres are huge → easier escape
• collisions produce volatile‑rich debris
• fragments inherit low‑inclination, prograde orbits → perfect for Taurid‑like families
{Low inclination is near the ecliptic, the solar system equator, near 0 degrees; high inclination is over 20 degrees above or below.}
But around inner planets, collisions produce debris that stays bound or re‑accretes:
• Earth/Mars → fragments stay in orbit or fall back
• Mercury/Venus → no moons to collide
• Small bodies → collisions produce asteroid families, not comets
So yes, collisions can occur anywhere — but only outer‑system collisions produce comet‑class debris.
3. How the Taurid stream could have shifted from Nov. 22 to early November
A Taurid peak around Nov. 22 in ancient times (e.g., 3300 BC) could drift earlier due to nodal precession, Yarkovsky drift, and especially Jupiter’s 7:2 resonance, which slowly drags the debris stream’s orbital node. Over thousands of years, these forces shift the date Earth intersects the densest part of the stream by days to weeks, exactly enough to move a late‑November peak into early November. Fragmentation of the original Taurid progenitor also released debris at different orbital phases, creating sub‑streams that drift at different rates.
4. How collisions could have created all of the meteor streams
A single moon‑moon collision could create many meteor streams, because the debris includes dust, gravel, boulders, and comet‑sized fragments that each evolve into their own orbital filaments. These filaments become meteor streams when Earth intersects them. However, such a collision cannot create all present meteor streams, because high‑inclination and retrograde streams (like the Perseids, Leonids, and Orionids) require parent comets with orbital geometries impossible to generate from debris originating near the ecliptic. A moon collision could create all low‑inclination, inner‑solar‑system streams, including the Taurids, Beta Taurids, Zeta Perseids, Chi Orionids, and several minor November streams, but not the high‑inclination Halley‑type families.
High‑inclination and retrograde meteor streams come from collisions and fragmentation events in the outer solar system — specifically the Kuiper Belt, the Scattered Disk, and sometimes the Oort Cloud — where bodies already have wild, tilted, or unstable orbits. When Neptune gravitationally “kicks” these bodies, collisions or tidal disruptions can send fragments into extreme‑inclination or even retrograde heliocentric paths. These fragments later evolve into the parent comets of the Perseids (Swift‑Tuttle, 113°), Leonids (Tempel‑Tuttle, 162°), and Orionids (Halley, 162°). Inner‑solar‑system collisions — including moon‑moon impacts around Jupiter or Saturn — cannot produce these orbital geometries because debris inherits the planet’s low‑inclination orbital plane. Only outer‑system chaos can generate the high‑inclination and retrograde comets that feed these meteor streams.