A Story of the Planet Venus
Looking For The Planet Venus Prior to 1200 BC
by John M. Collins Sarnia, Ont., Canada 2021
The Possible Effects on Earth of a Venus / Earth Encounter
Writing on the Venus Comet as attacking and destroying things on Earth, has led the author to consider what sort of events might have occurred on our planet as a result of those encounters. Before getting into the topic, he discloses that while he has an engineering background, he does not have adequate knowledge of, nor the computer programs to handle, the physics, gravitational forces and electro-magnetic forces that he believes were interacting. He speaks in more general terms.
A major unknown in this part of the puzzle, is "How close to Earth did the Venus Comet come?" as those bodies neared one another in 11,053 BCE. He does not have an good answer to that question. It would have been quite a sight to watch while sitting in our imaginary "space craft". Earth is a little larger in size and mass than is the planet Venus. Up close, those differences might escape our attention. Earth would be a montage of icy white, green forests, brown deserts and of course blue seas. The appearance of Venus and its Comet is your guess.
In later descriptions of that object, words like "fiery", "smoking", "writhing clouds", "bright flashes" are used. Imaginary reptilian forms are "seen" such as "serpents" and "dragons with multiple limbs, claws and slashing tails". Streaming material flowing or jetting from it, was thought of as smoke, flames or "hair" Other viewers mentioned that these "sky creatures" were armed with "spears and swords". All such creatures were credited with great powers and strength, plus evil intent. The description would vary depending on its closeness to the Earth. It came closer than the Moon and appears to have come close enough to contact our oxygen-rich atmosphere and burst into flames. The Moon likely would have been severely damaged by the debris in the Comet and perhaps "roasted" by the flames. A more detailed, technical description of the encounter is provided back on page 25 of this book.
Unlike, as was first considered, one planet did not just pass the other, but they became interlocked by their forces of attraction and repulsion. They were, in effect, two spinning dynamos pulling and twisting each other from their original orbits. The moon retained its association with the Earth. The massive Comet cloud would be drawn in and wrapped around all three bodies. It would be a turbulent, fiery cloud. Earth’s oxygen atmosphere likely was combusting materials in that cloud but also being torn away from the surface of the Earth exposing parts of our planet to the cold, airless, vacuum of space. The only stories of survivors that we have are from those who were inside boats, caverns, or on high ground. The author has not seen a report credited to a person who was exposed in the open.
Younger Dryas Period
At some point the two planets broke the dynamo coupling and went into separate orbits. While details on the Earth's new orbit are unknown, it took the Moon with it. The Venus Comet apparently continued in its Sun-encircling orbit. The Earth/Luna combination was a net loser of energy resulting in it moving from a sun orbit of 290 days to a substantially larger one with many more days. This change resulted in numerically fewer years in a person’s lifetime. Earth's rate of rotation on its polar axis likely did not change. Our moon, Luna, moved with the Earth, and its rotation changed from the previous 12 lunations in 290 days(1). It retained the same number of lunations per year with more days per month.
With the Earth's movement away from the Sun, there was a distinct drop in temperature worldwide that is known as the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB). Life on Earth was plunged into "survival" mode, ie. “hunter-gatherer". As for food supply in the Younger Dryas (YD) Period, it likely was a case of - if you could find it, catch it and keep it, you would eat it!
In looking at mapping of the Ponto-Caspian Basin in the Euro-Asia steppes, there is strong evidence that area likely was flooded with sea water and eventually drained back to its current form(2). The world-famous archeology site at Göbekli Tepe in south-central Turkey, is close to the southern edge of the Basin, and distinctly much higher in elevation. It was created during the YD period and was covered over with a rounded hill of earth before 9500 BCE. A repeat of the flooding of the Earth seems to have been anticipated.
End of Younger Dryas Period
The Venus Comet "attacked" our planet again about 1500 years later in 9585 BCE as shown in the Greenland Ice Data. This marked the beginning of the end of the Younger Dryas Period mentioned previously. It seems to have not been as severe an event as the 11,053 BCE catastrophe. Over a number of years, the Earth/Luna pair moved to an orbit distinctly closer to the sun, and the Earth was re-warmed. The author considers that the much colder Younger Dryas extended from the initial engagement of the Venus Comet with the Earth in 11,053 BCE, to the conclusion of the rewarming in 8114 BCE.
A recent publication(3) discusses a 31km diam. impact crater in northwest Greenland. In the crater are metallic asteroid remains that are covered with undisturbed glacial ice dating back to 11,700 YA. This suggests that the "repeat performance" passage of the Venus Comet, mentioned above, is only 165 years different and well within the likely accuracies of both the publication's estimate and the reading of the NOAA ice data. The authors of the publication suspected that the impacting object came in on a low angle of attack. This view is consistent with the Venus Comet brushing by the Earth, close enough that our planet passed through a portion of its comet cloud. The impactor would have been in that cloud of space debris.
This impact by a very small body into the much more massive Earth would have no identifiable effect other than the hole that it made. The destruction caused by the Venus Comet world-wide at the same time would mask it. Discovery and identification of that impact crater is a "bonus" to this author. It reinforces how deadly the content of the comet cloud was, as well as the timing and cause of the end of the Younger Dryas period.
Renewal Begins
Agriculture in the Middle East seems to have begun appearing again about 9,000 BCE in the period we call Neolithic. In central Africa, the Younger Dryas had led to failure of the monsoon season resulting in dry-climate plants becoming dominant(4). This pattern reversed at the end of the YD. However to the north, today's Sahara desert flourished as an attractive savannah. Multiple papers report that Younger Dryas effects have not been identified in Australasia. A Chinese paper by Ma, Z. B. et al.(5) provides details found in China.
Interestingly, work on American locations in the YD generally lacks specific data and dates, with no mention of people. The lacuna in people and animals there indicates two situations: creatures living west of the Appalachian mountains were destroyed by the Flood, and secondly that crossing of the Beringa land bridge did not resumed quickly. The Flood about 1500 years earlier had drowned the people and animals who were part-way across, as well as those populating central and plains portion of western North America. It also destroyed the vegetation with salt water, leaving no foodstuff for any animals or people that might try to cross. With sea level estimated as 75m below today rather than the 100] \m in 11,053 BCE, the land bridge was substantially less wide than before. Renewing migration to the Americas was not a matter of "marching daily forward". It was a slow expansion and settlement as the food chain recovered. That process happened over several thousand years. Meat-eating humans would go no faster than their prey animals recovered. Think grass >> rabbits >> hunters.
See Appendix 7 - Coming to America - Long Before Columbus.
Earth appears to have gone to a closer orbit around the sun. The Venus Comet is thought to have continued in its Sun focused orbit as its rhythm remained unchanged. Our planet would pass through the debris-fouled orbital pathway of the Comet multiple times while the Venus Comet was elsewhere on its orbit. These places on the orbit might provide minor showers of debris plunging through our atmosphere which, in turn, might limit food production in some areas. At only the two cross-over places of their orbits, could the Earth and the Venus Comet be at the same place at the same time. The Comet was either coming in to make a circle around the Sun, or having completed that part of its orbit, was outbound into its ellipse away from the Sun. Usually when one planet was at either spot, the other was elsewhere on its orbit.
By about 4000 BCE, the Earth is known to have had a 360 day solar rotation and the moon had 12 lunations of 30 days each. (see Appendix 2 as above) The author suspects that this Earth orbit resulted from the calamitous event of 4876 BCE which seems to have "tumbled" our planet so that sunrise was changed from west-rising to the east-rising we now have.
(1) Brinsley Le Poer Trench, MEN AMONG MANKIND - Page 21/22 - The Tiahuanaco Gates of the Sun, located on the east coast of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, has an astronomical calendar that shows a year of 290 days of twelve months. Ten months have 24 days and two months have 25 days.
(2) "The Ice Age Rise and Fall of the Caspian" by Gallagher, R. On Scribd website on 2018-04-15
(3) Kurt H. Kjær1*, Nicolaj K. Larsen et al, A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland., Science Advances, Research Article, Geology, 14 Nov 2018: Vol. 4, no. 11, eaar8173 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar8173
(4) "Abrupt resumption of the African Monsoon at the Younger Dryas—Holocene climatic transition" by Yannick Garcin et al, Quaternary Science Reviews Volume 26, Issues 5–6, March 2007, Pages 690-704
(5) Ma, Z. B., Cheng, H., Tan, M., Edwards, R. L., Li, H. C., You, C. F., ... Kelly, M. J. (2012). "Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event in northern China". Quaternary Science Reviews, 41, 83-93. DOI: .2012.03.06