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Wobble

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Aug 31, 2018

Wee-bulls Wobble & Sometimes Wee Strike Back

A year ago September 7th 2017, I created a page called Wobble. It was an attempt on my part to provide an alternative possible explanation for the energy source driving Sputnik Planitia's (SP) geology and the geology in general around all of Tombaugh Regio.

The month I created my Wobble page, it barely made it onto my top ten most visited page list. The traffic drove it to number 9 but it has never been on the list since. That is until this month, a year later, where it rose to take third place which it didn't even do when I first created it.
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A Wee-Bull
I have come to view this pattern of one page's rise in traffic frequency to mean some individuals at NASA are gathering information in order to produce a paper refuting my hypothesis. This has happened two times and possibly a third.

The NASA rebuttal seems to take place somewhere between 1 and 4 months after the rise in my web page traffic.

I simply wanted to get it on record before it takes place.
When I have time perhaps I will summarize my Wobble page 78 or you can just go read it.

I usually track my web page traffic but this month on Aug 8th, my web site hosting company (Weebly) got bought out (by Square for 365 million dollars) and changed the entire web traffic analysis page and it stopped working for about three weeks. Consequently, I have no way of knowing which day of this month the traffic spiked.

I'm glad NASA takes the time to look at my stuff and do their best due diligence at presenting what they feel is a more accurate representation of the information. After all, they are much much smarter than I am. The whole scientific process is one of testing the strength of ideas and their ability to stand up to scrutiny. I welcome their view point and look forward to reading what they have to say about the potential tidal flex energy induced into Pluto by Charon as Pluto wobbles 24 degrees over 1.4 million years.
When I met Alan Stern at his book signing in Washington DC, I briefly presented this SP geological energy source produced via 24 degree wobble idea to him. There were people in line behind me so neither of us really had time to elaborate our thoughts.

While he acknowledged it as a possibility he did seem to feel that 1.4 million years is a long time for enough energy to be released to produce this geological effect at Sputnik Planitia. I've read enough of his papers to know he favors the radiogenically hot core concept over the one I've suggested on my wobble page. 
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Alan Stern a nice smart man
Like I said, these scientists are much smarter than me, that fact alone doesn't mean they are right and I'm wrong, it is simply a factor that must be taken into account.

I'm one blind squirrel looking for a nut, they are many smart squirrels with lots of nuts.

Another factor that must be taken into account, they have an agenda, I don't. It was predetermined what would be found when we got to Pluto and this agenda of theirs is being forced onto the scene.

Case in point, using only 3 impacts as supportive evidence to age date the small satellites at 4 byr when it is known by scientists that this method has an error factor greater than 2 byr shows how far they will stretch reality to sell their agenda.

Even if this method was 90% accurate, using 3 impacts as evidence for age dating the small satellites to 4 byr is crazy. Its a discredit to science.

If nothing else comes of it, I hope my expressed opinions on this web site have challenged them to consider the strengths and weaknesses of their concepts.

Back in July of 2015 around the same time New Horizon's flew past Pluto, Hector Javier Durand-Manterola produced a very interesting paper indeed.
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He calculated the tidal flex difference experienced between Pluto and Charon when they are closest to the Sun (perihelion) while also in alignment with each other as well as the Sun (conjunction) as opposed to when they are near the Sun but not in a conjunction alignment.  ​
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Hector Javier Durand-Manterola illustration
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​Hector used the values from the below table for his calculations.
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​He used the below formula to determine relative tidal flex forces applied to Pluto and Charon while at perihelion and aphelion in a conjunctive vs non-conjunctive orientation with the Sun.
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Hector's math implies Pluto experiences a 5% tidal force difference when Pluto/Charon are in conjunction with the Sun at perihelion as opposed to when they are aligned perpendicularly relative to the Sun.
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This alignment difference then induces a natural seasonal tidal flex.

On my Wobble page 78, I suggested that Pluto's axial wobble of 24 degrees every 1.4 Myr would also produce a moving tidal bulge flex energy induced into Pluto at Sputnik Planitia.

Triton is in a near perfect circular orbit with Neptune.
Nimmo and Spencer used a concept they called obliquity tides (axial wobble) to explain Triton's young surface.
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In our view, Triton’s geological activity is driven by obliquity tides (axial wobble), which arise because of its inclination. In contrast, Pluto is unlikely to be experiencing significant tidal heating
(Triton is in a circular obit around Neptune like Pluto is with Charon but its circular obit is inclined). While Pluto may have experienced ancient tectonic deformation, we do not anticipate seeing the kind of young, deformed surfaces seen at Triton.
... (Nimmo and Spencer were wrong about Pluto's young deformed surface which is even more deformed than Triton with its 2.5 mile high uplifted mountains at Norgay Montes and young crater free Sputnik Planitia and surrounding terrain but the real point is tidal heating due to obliquity tides (axial wobble) is used to explain Triton's current geology and thin surface ice shell. This is exactly what I have proposed is the energy driving both Triton and Pluto's geology.)
Triton’s nearly circular orbit, however, means that an internal ocean is unlikely to produce a significant tidal response (similar to Europa); however, recent theoretical work introduces the possibility that obliquity tides could supply tidal energy to maintain a liquid layer) (I couldn't have said it better myself, only difference, I am saying it about Pluto as well as Triton.)

It is easy to say that since Pluto and Charon are currently in circular obits, no tidal flex energy exists between them. There are, however, other scenarios (24º wobble, conjunction at perihelion, obliquity tides) under which tidal stress energies could also be produced and explain the active geology. 
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