How to Calculate the Distance to the Sun and Moon

[Pratyatosa Dasa ACBSP]

Dear Prabhus, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Sadaputa Prabhu has explained to us that the statements in the Bhagavatam that the moon is further away than the sun simply means distance away from the plain of Bhu-mandala. The plain of Bhu-mandala is the plain of the ecliptic, so modern astronomers would agree with these statements.

To calculate the distance to the sun:

1. Go to http://www.1728.com/kepler3a.htm

2. Select “Orbital Radius”

3. Enter 1 “Solar Mass” for the Mass.

4. Enter 365 days for the time.

5. Click “C A L C U L A T E”

6. The result is  9.2921e+7 miles which is approximately 93,000,000 miles.

To calculate the distance to the moon:

1. Go to http://www.1728.com/kepler3a.htm

2. Select “Orbital Radius”

3. Enter 1 “Earth Mass” for the Mass.

4. Enter 28 days for the time.

5. Click “C A L C U L A T E”

6. The result is 2.4204e+5 miles which is approximately 242,000 miles.

Therefore, the moon is approximately 400 times closer than the sun which is why the sun and the moon look approximately the same size, even though the sun is 400 times as big in diameter.

Your servant, Pratyatosa Dasa

2009/10/26 Nityānanda Rāma dāsa <nityanan...@gmail.com>

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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

 

Friday, 24 October, 1975  

Mauritius
Letter to Svarupa Damodara das

 "The modern scientist, they say, from chemical life has come, or life from matter. So, I suggested that a little chemical composition may be made by the scientists with some yellow color, and why not put this artificial egg in an incubator and get more and more chickens.

If they cannot produce even a chicken or even an egg of chicken, how can we believe their very big, big talks.

In the words of Bhagavad-gita, they are described as mudhah, mayaya-apahrta jnana. Besides that, can you tell me what is the scientific opinion of the days being consecutively Sunday then Monday, then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and last Saturday? What is the history of this set-up? (from Sunday to Saturday).

According to our sastra, sun is first, then moon, then Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, like that. In other words, from Bhagavatam we understand that the moon is 1,600,000 miles above the sun. If that is true, then is it possible to go to the moon planet by persons who can never imagine to go the distance to the sun planet?

Under the circumstances, if we say that they have never gone to the moon planet, is it exaggeration? You are a scientist, I hope you will reply these 2 points scientifically. If the moon planet is actually far away from the sun planet, how they can go there and publish in the paper that the moon planet is the nearest planet."

--
Hari Bol
Your Humble Servant
Nityananda Rama dasa naradhama

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'I can make additions and alterations,' then you are finished."
-- Srila Prabhupada lecture July 12, 1975 Philadelphia Pa.

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Your servant, Pratyatosa Dasa