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Authors: Maurice Chatelain
Tags: Fiction, General, Social Science, Prehistoric peoples, Occult & Supernatural, Anthropology, Interplanetary voyages, Body; Mind & Spirit, UFOs & Extraterrestrials, Civilization; Ancient, History; Ancient
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precession of the equinoxes. This assurance is shared today by many authors trying to explain our ancestors' astonishing knowledge of astronomy.
A good example is the planet Uranus, which is usually not visible with the naked eye, but sometimes shows up for a few weeks with an apparent diameter larger than Mars at its greatest distance from Earth. Uranus was well known long before its official discovery by Sir William Herschel in 1781, but it took some time to make sure that it was a planet and not a star.
The ancient astrologers also could have noticed the acceleration and slowing down of a known planet when it passed another unknown planet. At the last conjunction of Uranus and Saturn on 4 May, 1942, the acceleration of Saturn was 2 minutes a day in February, 4 minutes in March, 6 in April, 8 in May, then 7 in June, 6 in July, 4 in August, and 2 in September when the conjunction of these two planets was over. By this same method Neptune was discovered in 1846 by Urbain Leverrier in France and by J. C. Adams in England.
There is some talk at this time about the big conjunction of planets that will take place on 10 May 2,000. Seven planets will be lined up with the sun. Some people have expressed fear that that combined force of attraction could cause tidal waves and earthquakes on our planet. Some even predict that California will break off along the San Andreas fault and drift away into the Pacific.
For me, a resident of San Diego, such thought is not very reassuring; but neither does it upset me much, since I have decided to retire to Tahiti anyway. However, for sheer fun, I have made some calculations to see how much influence the combined gravitational forces of the various planets could exert on our Earth.
As everyone knows, the gravitational force is directly proportionate to the product of the masses of the objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The planet that exerts the strongest attraction on Earth is Venus, but this force is no more than 1/180 of the gravitational pull of the Moon. Jupiter has about 1/4 of the pull of Venus; Mars is about one hundred times weaker; Saturn is the same as Mars; and finally, Pluto has but one twomillionth part of the gravity that the Moon exerts on the Earth. Some might ask if the orbits and revolution periods of comets also agree with the Nineveh constant. The comets that frequently return to our Sun do not prove the validity of the constant, but the revolution periods of the rare ones fit perfectly into the cycle of the constant. Whiston's comet, for example, makes 10,800 revolutions around the Sun in 2,268 million days, while Crigg's comet makes 37,800 revolutions during that same period of time. As for Halley's comet, which passed its closest point to the Sun in February, 1986, it makes exactly 81,000 revolutions in 2,268 days!
I could not close this chapter without a word or two about the possible existence of some more planets out beyond Pluto. At this moment there are to the best of my knowledge at least three candidates. First there is the planet which Brady named Proserpine - the same name that our ancestors gave to this body. According to him, the planet is sixty-four times farther away from the Sun than we are and needs 512 years for one revolution around the Sun. The constant of Nineveh indicates a revolution period of 187,005 days.
Next is the planet of William Pickering that, according to the constant, should have a year of 238,536 days corresponding to 653 terrestrial years. Third and lastly, there is the planet of Schuette and, as the constant of Nineveh shows, it should have a sidereal revolution period of 246,951 days or about 676 years. It could very well be that all three of these planets are one and the same -- the famous Proserpine that has been seen by three different astronomers on three different occasions in three different positions, and at three different distances.
All that, however, does not explain how our
A good example is the planet Uranus, which is usually not visible with the naked eye, but sometimes shows up for a few weeks with an apparent diameter larger than Mars at its greatest distance from Earth. Uranus was well known long before its official discovery by Sir William Herschel in 1781, but it took some time to make sure that it was a planet and not a star.
The ancient astrologers also could have noticed the acceleration and slowing down of a known planet when it passed another unknown planet. At the last conjunction of Uranus and Saturn on 4 May, 1942, the acceleration of Saturn was 2 minutes a day in February, 4 minutes in March, 6 in April, 8 in May, then 7 in June, 6 in July, 4 in August, and 2 in September when the conjunction of these two planets was over. By this same method Neptune was discovered in 1846 by Urbain Leverrier in France and by J. C. Adams in England.
There is some talk at this time about the big conjunction of planets that will take place on 10 May 2,000. Seven planets will be lined up with the sun. Some people have expressed fear that that combined force of attraction could cause tidal waves and earthquakes on our planet. Some even predict that California will break off along the San Andreas fault and drift away into the Pacific.
For me, a resident of San Diego, such thought is not very reassuring; but neither does it upset me much, since I have decided to retire to Tahiti anyway. However, for sheer fun, I have made some calculations to see how much influence the combined gravitational forces of the various planets could exert on our Earth.
As everyone knows, the gravitational force is directly proportionate to the product of the masses of the objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The planet that exerts the strongest attraction on Earth is Venus, but this force is no more than 1/180 of the gravitational pull of the Moon. Jupiter has about 1/4 of the pull of Venus; Mars is about one hundred times weaker; Saturn is the same as Mars; and finally, Pluto has but one twomillionth part of the gravity that the Moon exerts on the Earth. Some might ask if the orbits and revolution periods of comets also agree with the Nineveh constant. The comets that frequently return to our Sun do not prove the validity of the constant, but the revolution periods of the rare ones fit perfectly into the cycle of the constant. Whiston's comet, for example, makes 10,800 revolutions around the Sun in 2,268 million days, while Crigg's comet makes 37,800 revolutions during that same period of time. As for Halley's comet, which passed its closest point to the Sun in February, 1986, it makes exactly 81,000 revolutions in 2,268 days!
I could not close this chapter without a word or two about the possible existence of some more planets out beyond Pluto. At this moment there are to the best of my knowledge at least three candidates. First there is the planet which Brady named Proserpine - the same name that our ancestors gave to this body. According to him, the planet is sixty-four times farther away from the Sun than we are and needs 512 years for one revolution around the Sun. The constant of Nineveh indicates a revolution period of 187,005 days.
Next is the planet of William Pickering that, according to the constant, should have a year of 238,536 days corresponding to 653 terrestrial years. Third and lastly, there is the planet of Schuette and, as the constant of Nineveh shows, it should have a sidereal revolution period of 246,951 days or about 676 years. It could very well be that all three of these planets are one and the same -- the famous Proserpine that has been seen by three different astronomers on three different occasions in three different positions, and at three different distances.
All that, however, does not explain how our
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