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Sagittarius

8 paragraphs · about 1 minute · 2 chapters

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center of our minor sector, Ensa 8 paragraphs

15:3.5The ro­ta­tional cen­ter of your mi­nor sec­tor is sit­u­ated far away in the enor­mous and dense star cloud of Sagit­tar­ius, around which your lo­cal uni­verse and its as­so­ci­ated cre­ations all move, and from op­po­site sides of the vast Sagit­tar­ius sub­galac­tic sys­tem you may ob­serve two great streams of star clouds emerg­ing in stu­pen­dous stel­lar coils.

15:3.6The nu­cleus of the phys­i­cal sys­tem to which your sun and its as­so­ci­ated plan­ets be­long is the cen­ter of the one­time And­ro­no­ver neb­ula. This for­mer spi­ral neb­ula was slightly dis­torted by the grav­ity dis­rup­tions as­so­ci­ated with the events which were at­ten­dant upon the birth of your so­lar sys­tem, and which were oc­ca­sioned by the near ap­proach of a large neigh­bor­ing neb­ula. This near col­li­sion changed And­ro­no­ver into a some­what glob­u­lar ag­gre­ga­tion but did not wholly de­stroy the two-way pro­ces­sion of the suns and their as­so­ci­ated phys­i­cal groups. Your so­lar sys­tem now oc­cu­pies a fairly cen­tral po­si­tion in one of the arms of this dis­torted spi­ral, sit­u­ated about half­way from the cen­ter out to­wards the edge of the star stream.

15:3.7The Sagit­tar­ius sec­tor and all other sec­tors and di­vi­sions of Or­von­ton are in ro­ta­tion around Uversa, and some of the con­fu­sion of Uran­tian star ob­servers arises out of the il­lu­sions and rel­a­tive dis­tor­tions pro­duced by the fol­low­ing mul­ti­ple rev­o­lu­tion­ary move­ments:

15:3.81. The rev­o­lu­tion of Uran­tia around its sun.

15:3.92. The cir­cuit of your so­lar sys­tem about the nu­cleus of the for­mer And­ro­no­ver neb­ula.

15:3.103. The ro­ta­tion of the And­ro­no­ver stel­lar fam­ily and the as­so­ci­ated clus­ters about the com­pos­ite ro­ta­tion-grav­ity cen­ter of the star cloud of Neb­a­don.

15:3.114. The swing of the lo­cal star cloud of Neb­a­don and its as­so­ci­ated cre­ations around the Sagit­tar­ius cen­ter of their mi­nor sec­tor.

41:0.4Such is the con­sti­tu­tion of the lo­cal star cloud of Neb­a­don, which to­day swings in an in­creas­ingly set­tled or­bit about the Sagit­tar­ius cen­ter of that mi­nor sec­tor of Or­von­ton to which our lo­cal cre­ation be­longs.

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15:3.11 read above, under center of our minor sector, Ensa

41:0.4 read above, under center of our minor sector, Ensa

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Cited alongside: Ensa, astronomy, Monmatia, Andronover nebula, Nebadon