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Recondite influences<br />

Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

The sun’s gravitational domain, in the inner circles of which the earth is<br />

held captive, is now known to extend more than fifteen trillion miles into<br />

space, almost halfway to the nearest star. 5 Its pull upon our planet is<br />

therefore immense. Also affecting us is the gravity of the other planets<br />

with which we share the solar system. Each of these exerts an attraction<br />

which tends to draw the earth out of its regular orbit around the sun. The<br />

planets are of different sizes, however, and revolve around the sun at<br />

different speeds. The combined gravitational influence they are able to<br />

exert thus changes over time in complex but predictable ways, and the<br />

orbit changes its shape constantly in response. Since the orbit is an<br />

ellipse these changes affect its degree of elongation, known technically<br />

as its ‘eccentricity’. This varies from a low value close to zero (when the<br />

orbit approaches the form of a perfect circle) to a high value of about six<br />

per cent when it is at its most elongated and elliptical. 6<br />

There are other forms of planetary influence too. Thus, though no<br />

explanation has yet been forthcoming, it is known that shortwave radio<br />

frequencies are disturbed when Jupiter, Saturn and Mars line up. 7 And in<br />

this connection evidence has also emerged<br />

of a strange and unexpected correlation between the positions of Jupiter, Saturn<br />

and Mars, in their orbits around the sun, and violent electrical disturbances in the<br />

earth’s upper atmosphere. This would seem to indicate that the planets and the<br />

sun share in a cosmic-electrical balance mechanism that extends a billion miles<br />

from the centre of our solar system. Such an electrical balance is not accounted<br />

for in current astrophysical theories. 8<br />

5 The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch, pp. 288-9. Fifteen trillion miles is equivalent to<br />

fifteen thousand billion miles.<br />

6 Ice Ages, pp. 80-1.<br />

7 Earth in Upheaval, p. 266.<br />

8 New York Times, 15 April 1951.<br />

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