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What did Hanns Horbiger’s Welteislehre predict about lunar capture?
Hörbiger's Welteislehre predicted that Earth has experienced multiple successive moon captures, each ending in orbital decay and catastrophic planetary impact — the current Moon being only the latest. His interpreter Bellamy argued Tiwanaku's calendar was calibrated to a prior moon with a ~425-day orbit. The theory was suppressed as politically contaminated after Nazi adoption, but its core catastrophist lunar-capture mechanism re-emerges in contemporary debates about Earth's bombardment history.
Evidence
- Hörbiger argued, contra Newtonian orbital mechanics, that a subtle 'ethereal' resistance continuously decays captured bodies' orbits.
- The current Moon, he predicted, is merely the most recent in a series of captures — preceded by at least two prior moons that crashed into Earth, triggering the cataclysms remembered in global flood myths.
- Each prior lunar epoch, Hörbiger claimed, corresponded to a distinct geological and biological era; the previous moon's destruction produced the Tertiary giants — megafauna and giant humanoids — whose remains conventional paleontology misattributes to normal evolutionary processes.
- Bellamy calculated the penultimate moon had an orbital period of roughly 425 days.