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The solar system’s nine
planets will cluster in a rare for
mation Wednesday, and the
occasion is being taken quite se
riously in India — much more
seriously than by the New York
Center lor the Strange, or by sci
entists w ho dispell fears that the
event spells disaster.
For the first time since 1803,
and the last time until 2357,
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Nep
tune and Pluto will be within a
96-degree area on the same side
of'the sun. The event has given
birth to all sorts of theories, fears
and merry-making.
The planetary arrangement
was described in 1976 in a book
by astrophysicists John Gribbin
and Stephen H. Plagemann en
titled “The Jupiter Effect,”
which predicted the gravitation
al pull of such a lineup would
suck cosmic winds from the sun
and activate earthquake zones
around Earth, particularly
along California’s San Andreas
fault.
But Gribbin backed off his
prediction in a letter to the New
York Times last month.
“Our forecast was tied to
changes in the sun’s activity,
which we believed to be driven
by planetary alignments,” he
said.
“The sun’s activity peaked in
1979, not 1982, proving that the
planets do not dominate the
sun’s behavior and removing the
basis of our original forecast.”
That may be no consolation to
the readers of the Sunday
Herald in New Delhi. The news
paper said the positioning of the
planets will cause disease, riots,
labor unrest and possibly an ear
thquake.
A “strange epidemic affecting
the abdomen will stalk India,”
and “a southern state will create
problems,” the newspaper said
in a reference to political con
flicts.
The New York Center for the
Strange sees it differently. The
group, which issues the Hallo
ween predictions of witches,
held a poll that revealed there
will be problems, but nothing as
serious as what is being pre
dicted in India.
The poll said the planetary
lineup will cause “nationwide
shortages of sparkling wine,
hockey pucks, gerbil cages and
soy sauce.”
The center also said: “French
scientists will warn that massive
quantities of chicken soup can
cause erotic dreams.”
Doomsday won’t be a somber
occasion at the Arizona State
University planetarium, where
coordinator Dan Matlaga plans
an “End of the World” show and
party Monday.
“Some people seem to thrive
on predictions of calamity and
mayhem,” he said. “The one
accompanying ‘The Jupiter
Effect’ seems to have a lot of fol
lowers. We have been getting
frequent calls about it.”
The Oregon Museum of Sci
ence and Industry in Portland
also plans a party to celebrate
the continuation of life on
Earth.
“Definitely not on the even
ing’s schedule are killer earth
quakes, volcanic eruptions or
the arrival of war parties from
distant solar systems,” museum
representative Beverly Swaren
said.
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Today is Tuesday, March 9,
the 68th day of 1982, with 297 to
follow.
On this date in history:
In 1822, the first patent for
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In 1977, 12 gunmen belong
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