dear friend mechumla

thank you for giving three references.

reference 1 of you speaks about no asteriod between mercury and
venus which means no planetary or asteriod formation of ketu.

reference 2 of you speaks about how asteriods are formed which are
leftover miniscule pieces of a past existing planet (of which planet
no one is aware of) and also their insignificance even if all of
them are collected and joined together as a planet.

reference 3 of you speaks of an existence of such asteriods between
mars and jupiter and hence the possibility of these miniscule
physical asteriods related to rahu. however, these this is still
not sound logic enough considering the second largest number of 18
years under vimshottari accorded to rahu.

since rahu and ketu are enjoying equal status like all other planets
with equal stars allocated to them and rahu giving second largest
dasha and ketu giving equal dasha of mars and higher dasha of sun,
these two must be equal or larger planets and not tiny leftover
asteriods in scientific language. of course these are all doubts
from a scientific view and from mythological view, these two demons
rahu and ketu got planetary status and enjoy worship in all
navagraha poojas alongside other benefic devata planets.

with best wishes
pandit arjun


--- In vedic-astrology (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "mechumla" <mechumla@...>
wrote:
>
> Dear Arjun-ji,
>
> Namsakaar, I do not have much jyotish knowledge, but as regards
the
> asteroid belt (Rahu ??) between Mars and Jupiter, here is some
> reference you may want to look at.
>
>
> There is no asteroid belt between Mercury and Venus,except few
> objects between Mercury's and Venus'
> ( Reference 1:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tance_from_Sun )
>
>
> Reference 2:
> http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimed....cfm?IM_ID=850
>
> Asteroids are material left over from the formation of the solar
> system. One theory suggests that they are the remains of a planet
> that was destroyed in a massive collision long ago. More likely,
> asteroids are material that never coalesced into a planet. In
fact,
> if the estimated total mass of all asteroids was gathered into a
> single object, the object would be less than 1,500 kilometers (932
> miles) across, less than half the diameter of our Moon.
>
> Reference 3:
> http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...eroids-ez.html
>
> There are two hypotheses about how most of the asteroids formed.
One
> says they broke off of a mother planet that existed between Mars
and
> Jupiter. More likely, however, they represent what space was like
> before the planets formed, and they are the remnants of that
> process -- bits and pieces that never quite joined together.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> -- In vedic-astrology (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "panditarjun2004"
> <panditarjun2004@> wrote:
> >
> > dear anil ji
> >
> > as usual you post one mail in a month responding all others
mails
> > posted in that month. i personally appreciate your efforts in
> > responding to all our observations. here are my brief comments
to
> > your observations on my mails:
> >
> > 1. you gave a convincing and sound logical observation on a
> physical
> > planet rahu existing in between mars and jupiter and its severed
> > part as another small planet ketu in between mercury and venus.
> > could you please furnish the reference of this research paper,
> book
> > or NASA website, as i am not aware of the physical existence of
> rahu
> > and ketu till date.
> >
> > 2. agreed to your observation of navagraha poojas indicating
> > acceptance of the status of rahu and ketu as planets and also
for
> > mentioning three types of grahas. either as non-existing
entities
> > with planetary status or existing physical planets with
planetary
> > status, they have their position in the protocol of navagrahas
and
> > hence both rahu and ketu ENJOY WORSHIP along with other grahas
in
> > navagraha poojas.
> >
> > 3 & 4. you mentioned BPHS giving yogas for nodes and also own
> signs,
> > exaltation, debilitation and mooltrikon. same were not found in
> > bhrigu and other samhitas and also some medieval books like
> saravali
> > and others.
> >
> > 5. yes, rahu and ketu were found giving good results in 3,6,11.
> >
> > 6. the few examples cited by you are true in relation to rahu's
> > deceit and other observations of shukracharya and vaman avataar
> etc.
> > since these are true, i agree to your observations.
> >
> > with best wishes
> > pandit arjun
> >
>