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There are a number of planets or moons whose existence is not supported by scientific evidence, but are proposed by various astrologers, pseudoscientists, conspiracy theorists, or certain religious groups. ==Lilith== Lilith is the name given to a hypothetical second moon of Earth, supposedly about the same mass as the Earth's Moon, proposed in 1918 by astrologer Walter Gorn Old, who called himself Sepharial. Sepharial applied the name Lilith from medieval Jewish legend, where she is described as the first wife of Adam.〔Graves, Robert and Patai, Raphael. ''Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis.'' New York: Doubleday, 1964, pp. 65-69, ISBN 978-1-85754-661-3, ISBN 1-85754-661-X, Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd. (October 1, 2004); note this publication refers to "Yalqut Reubeni ad. Gen. II. 21; IV. 8.", (see )〕 Sepharial claimed that Lilith was the same second moon that scientist Georg Waltemath claimed to have discovered twenty years earlier.〔Bakich, Michael E. ''The Cambridge Planetary Handbook.'' Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 148, ISBN 0-521-63280-3, (see )〕〔Schlyter, Paul. (Hypothetische Planeten ), 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-07.〕 Sepharial also claimed to be the first person in history to observe Waltemath's moon as it crossed the sun, and rationalized that it was too dark to be otherwise visually detected.〔Sepharial, A. ''The Science of Foreknowledge: Being a Compendium of Astrological Research, Philosophy, and Practice in the East and West.''; Kessinger Publishing (reprint), 1997, pp. 39-50; ISBN 1-56459-717-2, (see )〕 Sepharial's comments ignored the fact that Waltemath's proposed moon had already been discredited by the scientific community at the turn of the century.〔("The Earth's Second Moon, 1846-present" ), Samson H. Cheung's page, UC Davis: "The original idea was that the gravitational field of the second moon should account for the then inexplicable minor deviations of the motion of our big Moon. That meant an object at least several miles large -- but if such a large second moon really existed, it would have been seen by the Babylonians."〕 There are many readily apparent holes in the arguments supporting Lilith's existence, and the existence of this astronomical object is believed only by fringe groups. In present-day astrology, the name Lilith is usually given to a point on the horoscope that represents the direction of the actual moon's apogee, unrelated to the hypothetical second moon. When considered as a point, this Lilith is sometimes defined as the second focus of the ellipse described by the Moon's orbit; the earth is the first focus, and the apogee lies in the same direction. It takes 8 years and 10 months to complete its circuit around the zodiac.〔Joëlle de Gravelaine, "Lilith und das Loslassen", ''Astrologie Heute'' Nr. 23; translated as "(Lilith - the dark moon )" (Astrodienst; accessed Oct. 9. 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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