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...According to Gribbin, the geophysics editor of the British scientific journal Nature, and Plagemann, a researcher on a NASA study of the upper atmosphere, the quake will strike in 1982 because the solar system's nine planets will be more or less aligned that year on one side of the sun, a configuration that occurs only once every 179 years. Citing new and old findings from fields as varied as meteorology, solar physics, celestial mechanics and geophysics, they boldly predict a Velikovskian sequence of events...
...planets line up, they say, the combined gravitational tug will raise large tides and cause great flare-ups on the sun, which will then be at the peak of its eleven-year sunspot cycle. The solar storms will spew out streams of charged particles more intense than usual, disrupting radio communications on earth, creating exceptionally bright northern (and southern) lights, and affecting global weather patterns. Prevailing west-to-east winds will moderate, decreasing their contribution to the earth's rotation and allowing it to slow ever so slightly. The abrupt slowdown would provide the necessary nudge, as Gribbin...
...fact, it is very close to pure fantasy." Says M.I.T. Geophysicist M. Nafi Toksoz: "I'm not going into a bunker or anything like that when all the planets line up." Even those who concede the possible validity of some of the effects -the connection, say, between solar flare-ups and global climate-were highly skeptical about The Jupiter Effect. Don Anderson, director of Caltech's seismological laboratory, describes the book's predicted sequence of events as little more than "one inference piled upon another." His Caltech colleague, James Whitcomb, calls it a blend of "some plausible...
...cleaned and laid out. The staff will always be on hand to charter limousines, yachts, helicopters and jets, snap up tickets to the theater, opera and concert. In residence, madame in her marble bathroom (with porcelain bidet) will never be embarrassed by window-cleaning voyeurs: the floor-to-ceiling solar-glass windows are washed by peekless mechanical equipment. Ari's aerie is located on the razed site of the old beloved Best & Co. store, where generations of middle-class New Yorkers trudged to outfit their children before each school season. Now, commuting between down-tower office...
...before the little ship was boosted along by Jovian gravity on a flight path that will eventually carry it out of the solar system, it gathered more information about Jupiter than had all astronomers since Galileo first pointed his crude telescope at the planet more than three centuries ago. Now, after a lengthy study of Pioneer's wealth of data-including 80 photographs-scientists have put together a totally new image of the king of planets...