29 July 2014 · Wayback

Cataclysmic satellites

web.archive.org/web/20140729202927/http://www.planetarylifecycle.com/cataclysm.html

Original wording. Not rewritten as Paper I. Withdrawn claims stay visible so the record is not erased.

Besides the six largest natural satellites of the Jovian planets being proto-earths, the next ten largest Jovian natural satellites are also a part of a spectacular cycle. It begins inside of Saturn, within its Great White Spot: an embryonic moon is undergoing formation and will emerge from that Jovian atmosphere becoming the next Enceladus.

Ages as posted (1 = billion years): 0.5 Saturn’s White Spot; 1 Enceladus; 1.5 Tethys; 2 Dione; 2.5 Rhea; 3 Iapetus; 3.5 Oberon; 4 Titania; 4.5 Umbriel; 5 Ariel; 5.5 Miranda.

Once current Enceladus expands large enough Mimas will collide with it to form the next Tethys. … Current Iapetus exits its orbit of Saturn to become the next Oberon orbiting Uranus. … Lastly current Ariel will become the next Miranda. Triton will inevitably exit its orbit. Miranda ultimately will collide with Triton. This collision helps propel that proto-earth to its next destination of becoming Mars.

NASA clip on that page: the northern lowlands of Mars as the largest impact basin in the solar system, used there as that collision.

Paper II is reserved for a secondary cycle among mid-sized icy satellites. Paper I does not depend on it. Collision-as-propulsion and “exits its orbit” are withdrawn.