Fair call, VanderL! I love the mental image of 2 planetary bodies interacting with great big electric arcs...would look great in some scary sci-fi movie!

But...how come we don't see this electrical interaction between planets & moons anymore? Does it somehow equalize or neutralize away?

The fact that our Sun blows away its outer atmosphere regularly kinda scares me. We don't know everything there is to know about stars, I grant you that...and how our Sun compares to other G2 stars... It could be that our Sun is unstable! Maybe it's gonna blow? It certainly does seem to display some erratic behaviour.....

VanderL, you mentioned how "cratering throughout the solar system" is an anomaly. Could you please elaborate on that? I'm interested.