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PLANETARY EFFECTS ON THE SUN AND THE EARTH PLANETARY EFFECTS SUN EARTH THE AND THE The Sun is affected by planetary alignments, and specific angular relationships can create sufficient resonance as to cause destructive seismic, volcanic and climatic impacts on Earth. ABSTRACT lhe Solar Electromagnetic Resonant Cross (SER-X) provides the key to timing of major events on the Sun and on the Earth. Planet—Cross alignments, together with specific interplanetary angular separations, coincided with the seismic events of 24-26 December 2004, of which an outcome was the Asian tsunami. Planetary conjunctions also coincided with peak sunspot abundance on 30 March 2001, precipitous decay of the 1997-98 giant El Nifio in May 1998, and both the beginning and the end of the last prominent cold period of the Little Ice Age, the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715). Cross and influential angularities promise to be revealing for the future (as for the past) because orbits can be calculated in advance (or in reverse). A sharp enhancement of planetary influence on the Sun and Earth can be expected in the first half of June 2008. 1. INTRODUCTION: Nothing is really new The concept of a solar driver for human affairs is far from new. When the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten came to power in 1352 BC, he proclaimed the Sun to be the dominant influence on the well-being of Egypt. But the official standing of this eminently plausible hypothesis did not survive the lifetimes of him and Nefertiti. Renewed support for the Sun had to await the observational evidence of variable solar activity enabled by Galileo's telescope. Within 200 years, the obvious correlation between events on the Sun and the Earth had closed a 3,000-year circle. There is a Sun—Earth connection. My paper goes a step further by seeking the underlying driver for this connection. Nothing is entirely new, it seems. Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich located 276 copies of the 1543 edition of Copernicus’ book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, and was surprised to find that the part about the Earth going around the Sun attracted little attention from peers. Annotations were concentrated on pages relating to the calculation of planetary orbits. Astronomers were seeking an easier way to do this time-consuming task than had been afforded by the second-century Ptolemaic system of prediction. Planets have long been seen as influential. But how? Enter Mercury I challenge current theories about the Sun, and offer a reason why it is affected by planetary alignments. Mercury is crucial. It is by far the closest planet, with an orbital period of 88 days (next-in-line Venus has a period of 225 days). Furthermore, it has a notably elliptical orbit, matched only by that of distant Pluto. Mercury's orbital eccentricity is 0.206 (cf. 0.007 for its stay-at-home neighbour, Venus), and its closest point (perihelion) to the Sun is when it's at the azimuth of 75°—by the conventional 360-degree solar-centred rose on which planetary positions are plotted. (The azimuth is the angular direction from the Sun to a planet at a particular moment as it orbits in the "horizontal" plane at right angles to the Sun's north-south spin axis.) Mercury's frequent closest point to the Sun provides the starting point for an electromagnetic resonance in the Sun, which is also evident 43 days later when the planet has moved by 180° to the opposing resonant position at 225°. This phenomenon is visible as extensions of magnetised plasma from the solar corona in a four-leaf-clover pattern (which can be replicated by permanent magnets placed near a television screen; see image 1). It appears that there are four fixed resonant positions, or "beams", 90° apart, and each is visited in turn by Mercury at an average of 22-day intervals. Clearly, the Sun is in a permanent state of resonance, and its ringing is dramatically enhanced as additional planets pass through one of these four resonant positions. by Kenneth W. Dickman © 2006, 2008 Email: goldco9@tpg.com.au Based on a paper published in Energy & Environment 2006; 17(1):63-73; updated in May 2008 by Kenneth W. Dickman © 2006, 2008 Based on a paper published in Energy & Environment 2006; 17(1):63-73; updated in May 2008 JUNE — JULY 2008 NEXUS = 39 Email: goldco9@tpg.com.au www.nexusmagazine.com