SCI Anyone remember Jupiter Effect?

Back in 1974 John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann suggested in their book Jupiter Effect that the earth might be subjected to an unusual number of earthquakes in 1982 as all the planets were "lined" up on one side of the earth. In fact they were only within a secment of sky embraced by about 95 degrees. And, nothing terribly exciting happened.

So the other night I was looking at Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter next to the moon, just after the sun set, and I got to wondering where all the other planets were. I played around on Google Sky and was surprised to see that they were all pretty much together. I just downloaded Asynx Planetarium, which is a bit clearer to understand. But, surprise, surprise, the end of this month--at the next new moon--Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, and the moon will all be within a 30 degree arc centered on the Sun. Venus and Uranus will only be outside of that "line" by another 30 degrees. Saturn is clear around behind us, but damn near on the same line. Running through several years, it is apparent that this doesn't happen too often.

Unfortunately, we won't be able to see the show as the sun will be in the way. But, thought I mention this to anyone who wants to worry about extra the effect of terrestrial gravity (or laugh at extra terrestrial levity).

Well, there's supposed to be a unique lineup of planets in February 2009, however, on this laptop I can't seem to get up two pages at once (or much of anything else either) If you Google it though, it will come up.

What is the planet lineup 12/21/12? Same thing?

i remember reading that book. then there was another about "The Earthquake Generation" in 1990s. someday one of those authors will hit it on the money.

5/5/2000 was the full allignment, nothing happened.

You're right, 5/5/2000 was cool (without Uranus and Neptune, thought). 12/12/12 has Saturn, Venus, Mercury, and Mars within 75 degrees.

I don't expect anything coming up. Just something interesting to play with.

It's a pretty cool planetatium program and it's free.

I think the 2012 alignment has more to do with the alignment of the sun and the galactic equator and the debris field than the actual planet alignment - from what I understand.

Grantbo said:

5/5/2000 was the full allignment, nothing happened.

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Was that the one called "The String of Pearls?"

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Forces/isq.html

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because of the inverse square law guess that they are too far away to have any noticeable effect


yes remember reading the book and being scoffed at when talking about it. presume that Gribbin is a credible scientist


he wrote a book called the Greenhouse Effect!

If Wikipedia is to be believed, Gribbin wishes he had nothing to do with the theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_effect

whens the next new moon ???

12-21-2012 is the date that the sun will cross the galactic equator and also mentioned on the mayan calendar as the end of the "long cycle".

Don't know about the Jupiter effect but there was an alignment that got my attention on Election Day 06-24-2005.

and the view from the ground.




The programs:

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

http://www.stellarium.org/
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Mr. Rasmussen said:

Don't know about the Jupiter effect but there was an alignment that got my attention on Election Day 06-24-2005.

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the celestial moevment has nothing to do with Earth political parties

note how they the BBC equate CONSERVATiVEs with ISLAMIC fascism

they and the BBC and the party they support are vermin

the greenhouse effect is also crap


good ole John from the uni of Sussex

whens the next new moon ???

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The moon is right on top of the sun in seven hours. It corresponds with the total solar eclipse that takes place in eastern hemisphere.

True enough, but this is what's really going on!!

Richard said:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Forces/isq.html

page down to second diagram

because of the inverse square law guess that they are too far away to have any noticeable effect


yes remember reading the book and being scoffed at when talking about it. presume that Gribbin is a credible scientist


he wrote a book called the Greenhouse Effect!

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http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/GenRelativity.html

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/EinsteinEquations.html

The bend in the space-time continuum may be enough to cause the quakes in question!!