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Subject: [illusions] CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY | Our Planet | Sumerian | Niberu
Date: 28 Dec 2000 20:27:15 -0500
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Thanx for the post Nancy.....My planetary address book is not up to
date[gone]
so i am asking that Spirit fwd this to the appropriate openminded
scientists, researchers, astronomers..... i would like this to get to
Bob Berman,
astronomer NY  and Kent Steadman ORBIT.... for starters

i make exception to the open address's so that all make keep abreast of
this.
please use [reply to all] for any [significant] reponses or inquiry.
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>>                          CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY:
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>>                        BIG WORD, HEAVY MEANING
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>>                              By Lloyd Pye
>>
>> [The idea behind this article was suggested to me by Roger B.
>> Cunningham. Roger is a graduate of Georgia Tech, where he
>> concentrated on systems and statistics. He has an MBA in finance
>> from the University of Maryland. He was a Naval Intelligence
>> Officer. He is a partner in a nationwide consulting firm and is
>> published in trade periodicals.
>>
>> After Roger got my mental ball rolling, I asked for additional data
>> support from Dan McWilliams, a brilliant freelance researcher who
>> can find virtually anything on the net. Dan did yeoman duty pulling
>> together related materials to flesh out what Roger sent in the first
>> place. I think that together we may have fallen on something other
>> than our swords. This could be a long-sought "smoking gun" of
>> ancient astronaut research.]
>>
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>> Stratigraphy is the science of reading geological strata, which are
>> ribbon-like layers of rock that were at one time sand, soil, or
>> volcanic outflow. Sand or soil was washed into place by long extinct
>> rivers, or settled to the bottom of long extinct seas or lakes. Lava
>> flows appear much quicker and are usually much thicker. As layer
>> after layer piled atop existing ones, pressure fused the sand and
>> soil into rock, while lava became rock upon cooling. All layers
>> exhibit the original materials that comprised them. Look at
>> virtually any road cut in a mountain or hillock where a highway or
>> interstate goes through and you will see varying strata. You can’t
>> miss them. They are ubiquitous throughout the world.
>>
>> Strata can reveal many things. When was a particular layer
>> deposited? A few thousand years ago? Several million? A billion? Of
>> what was it composed? Limestone? Granite? Simple stuff. But complex
>> data is also available. What was the magnetic alignment of the Earth
>> when a strata was deposited? Was magnetic north where it is today?
>> Pointing to the equator? Or to where Zanzibar is now? Strata are the
>> telltales of geologic history. They can provide views into the past
>> that are often remarkable and sometimes astonishing.
>>
>> One of the lesser known but highly important aspects of stratigraphy
>> is that it provides an unambiguous record of global catastrophes.
>> Shifts of the magnetic poles are only one of a range of events
>> chronicled in stone. Earthquakes of great antiquity can be read and
>> dated. Volcanic eruptions. Meteorite impacts. Colossal (though not
>> necessarily Biblical) floods. Ice ages recorded from beginning to
>> end. But it can also reveal much subtler changes, things like the
>> worldwide shifting of seasonal patterns over vast expanses of time.
>>
>> Mountains rise and fall. Rivers change course. Flood plains shrink
>> or expand. Glaciers wax and wane. All leave scars on the Earth that
>> end up in the geologic record. But what causes the seasons to
>> change? Better yet, what causes Ice Ages? What causes the many
>> fluctuations recorded within each Ice Age? Is there a pattern to any
>> of it? Can there be a recognizable cycle in a river’s seasonal
>> flooding, or Earth’s cataclysmic Ice Ages? Yes.
>>
>> A river’s flooding pattern is indirectly caused by regular shifts of
>> Earth’s polar axis. This shifting-which nearly coincides with the
>> solar year-creates the seasons. Seasons are caused by tidal
>> influences of the Sun and Moon, which is known as Seasonal Tilting
>> (T). Seasonal Tilting is a measurable effect that completes one full
>> cycle in one Earth year, and it is the basis of all the much longer
>> cycles of weather fluctuation, such as Ice Ages.
>>
>> The gravitational pull of the solar system’s other planets, though
>> vastly weaker than the Sun and the Moon’s compelling tugs, has an
>> equally measurable effect on Earth’s orbit. Instead of being
>> perfectly circular, which it would be if not for outside effects,
>> Earth’s orbit is pulled into an ellipse by the gravitation and
>> motion of its sibling planets. That subtle shifting toward and away
>> from the Sun on a regular basis is called Eccentricity (E).
>>
>> Another well-known effect that influences Earth’s orbital
>> irregularity is the angle between the plane of its equator and its
>> path along the ecliptic. If the equator was level with the ecliptic
>> (the flat plane of the entire solar system centered on the Sun’s
>> equator), Earth would revolve perfectly upright and there would be
>> no seasons. But as it is, the axis tilts between 22.1 and 24.5
>> degrees from true north. Currently the tilt is 23° 26¢ 21² and it
>> decreases by 0.472² per year. This gradual tilting of the polar axis
>> is called Obliquity (O).
>>
>> A final effect on Earth’s orbit is the change in the direction of
>> its axis as it turns around the axis of the ecliptic so as to etch
>> out a cone in the heavens. This cone is traceable in the gradual
>> westward movement of the equinoctial points (when the Sun passes
>> Earth’s equator heading north or south) along the ecliptic. This is
>> called Precession (P).
>>
>> In the same way Seasonal Tilting is measured in one-year increments,
>> Precession and Eccentricity and Obliquity are equally measurable,
>> but in vastly longer periods. This is done by using astronomical
>> observations today, and by comparing those calculations of
>> periodicities with the geologic strata, which reveal different
>> depositional patterns that coincide with the various cycles. This
>> measurement of depositional patterns in Earth’s strata is called
>> cyclostratigraphy, which loosely translates as "recording evidence
>> of orbital fluctuations as indicated by variations in type and
>> quantity of Earth’s strata."
>>
>> Comparison of astronomical calculations and cyclostratigraphic
>> depositions reveals a great deal of resonance, but also some
>> dissonance. For example, with Precession there is clear disparity.
>> The astronomical count is that one Precession cycle occurs every
>> 25,920 years. Despite such a daunting length of time, the ancient
>> Sumerians somehow (some would say miraculously) first calculated it
>> and divided it into twelve equal segments of 2,160 years--the length
>> of each "age" of the Zodiac (another Sumerian "first").
>>
>> Cyclostratigraphy, on the other hand, finds a precessional value of
>> between 21,000 and 22,000 years, give or take, because reading
>> strata is much less precise than astronomical calculations. However,
>> their validity cannot be ignored simply because they do not jibe
>> with the astronomical calculations. Furthermore, astronomy can only
>> account for the cause of four of the known effects on Earth’s orbit.
>> Cyclostratigraphy can account for four more, and it is these four
>> "unknowns" that are the crux of our consideration here.
>>
>> We have already discussed Seasonal Tilting, which is a one-year
>> cycle caused by the Sun and Moon. Mark it "known." There is a Major
>> Obliquity Cycle of 41,000 years duration that is caused by the
>> combined gravitational pulls and orbital effects of the other
>> planets. Another "known." As is the two cycles of Eccentricity,
>> Major One and Major Two, both of which are also caused by the
>> effects of the other planets. These are all listed below.
>>
>> Name Cause Cycle Duration
>>
>> T Seasonal Tilting Sun/Moon 1 yr.
>>
>> O(M) Obliquity Major Cycle Planets 41,000 yrs
>>
>> E(M1) Eccentricity Major One Planets 410,000 yrs
>>
>> E(M2) Eccentricity Major Two Planets ~100,000 yrs
>>
>> Surprisingly, for as well-understood as Precession is, its cause
>> remains unknown. No combination of planetary effects or effects from
>> the Sun or Moon can account for it. It is a mystery. The same can be
>> said for Obliquity Minor One, Obliquity Minor Two, and the Full
>> Obliquity Cycle of 1,300,000 years. These are not names nor orbital
>> effects that most readers will need to concern themselves with. Only
>> specialists need to remember them, but they will do that without
>> being told. Here are the figures for the "unknowns."
>>
>> Name Cause Cycle Duration
>>
>> P Orbit Precession Unknown 21,700 yrs
>>
>> O(m1) Obliquity Minor One Unknown 29,000 yrs
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>> O(m2) Obliquity Minor Two Unknown 54,000 yrs
>>
>> O(C) Full Obliquity Cycle Unknown 1,300,000 yrs
>>
>> Because cyclostratigraphy is an inexact science, we cannot yet go to
>> the wall with what we are about to propose. But we want to give the
>> source for the dates given so it can be seen that they were taken
>> from a supposedly reliable textbook. If that text should in the end
>> prove to be unreliable, we will have made an honest mistake. But we
>> proceed with the assumption they fall within an acceptable range of
>> error, if not right on the nose.
>>
>> All of the figures given above, both known and unknown, come from
>> the new "Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and
>> Prehistory," Garland Publishing, 2000, pp. 196-201. As Roger
>> Cunningham was reading through the section of the book dealing with
>> these matters, something caused him to put on his thinking cap and,
>> being a number cruncher at heart, he decided to play around with
>> what he had read. It wasn’t long before one very important number
>> literally leaped off the calculator at him: 3,600.
>>
>> For those unfamiliar with the work of Zecharia Sitchin, he has done
>> extensive research on the writings of the ancient Sumerians (recall
>> our mention of them above). They were the first great culture in
>> Earth’s recorded history, roaring out of the caves of the Stone Age
>> at full throttle 6,000 years ago, establishing an extraordinarily
>> high civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley of modern day Iraq.
>> They produced over 100 of the "firsts" we attribute to a high
>> civilization, one of which was writing (cuneiform) on clay tablets
>> that they then fired in kilns (another first). Their words are
>> literally "written in stone."
>>
>> In over 100,000 tablets that have been recovered, they attest to a
>> literally "impossible" view of prehistory, so they and their "myths"
>> are dismissed by establishment science. But Zecharia Sitchin
>> believes what they recorded was a literal history, and part of that
>> history says there is another planet in our solar system-a planet
>> unlike any of the others. It was "captured" by the gravitational
>> pulls of the just-forming outer planets approximately 4.0 billion
>> years ago. They flung it in toward the Sun, whose massive gravity
>> permanently altered the rogue planet’s orbit and made it a part of
>> our solar system.
>>
>> The Sumerians called the rogue planet "Nibiru," and its orbit they
>> claimed to be a long clockwise ellipse (compared to the nearly
>> circular, counterclockwise orbits of the other planets), like the
>> orbit of a comet. (If you doubt that any people as "primitive" as
>> the Sumerians are purported to be could possibly know anything
>> significant about the heavens, be advised that they knew Uranus,
>> Neptune, and Pluto existed beyond their vision, which we didn’t know
>> until telescopes revealed them. Even more astonishing, they knew
>> that when Uranus and Neptune were viewed from space they looked like
>> "blue-green watery twins," which we didn’t know until Voyager in the
>> late 1980’s.)
>>
>> The Sumerians further claimed that Nibiru had an orbital period
>> of….you guessed it-3,600 years! The exact number Roger Cunningham
>> was looking at as he checked for divisors into the cycles of the
>> "unknown" effects on Earth’s orbit. He seems to have struck a
>> remarkable depth of paydirt with those calculations, as these
>> figures reveal:
>>
>> Name Cause Cycle Duration ¸ by 3600
>>
>> Orbit Precession Unknown 21,700 yrs 6.02
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>> Obliquity Minor One Unknown 29,000 yrs 8.05
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>> Obliquity Minor Two Unknown 54,000 yrs 15.00
>>
>> Full Obliquity Cycle Unknown 1,300,000 yrs 361.11
>>
>> This correlation seems impressive by any standard, even though it is
>> not exact to the last decimal point. Why? Because, again, these
>> figures are the result of a still-inexact science,
>> cyclostratigraphy, so the exact figures for each (21,600; 28,800;
>> 54,000; 1,296,000) is easily within a fractional margin of error for
>> each calculation. And if this is true, we are looking at what might
>> be one of the great "smoking guns" of antiquity. Let me explain.
>>
>> One of Isaac Newton’s laws of motion states that any body in motion
>> tends to remain in the same exact motion unless acted upon by an
>> outside force. This, of course, is meant to apply in utterly ideal
>> circumstances. So let’s do that. Let’s set a child’s top spinning in
>> a frictionless vacuum. If we do that it will whirl, perfectly
>> stable, on into infinity. Nothing will alter or affect its motion in
>> any way. However, anything acting on it, the "outside force" Newton
>> spoke of, would indeed alter its motion.
>>
>> The degree of that alteration would depend on the amount of force
>> applied. A hand clamped down on the child’s top would stop its
>> spinning completely. The lightest touch of a fingertip on its
>> surface would induce a discernable "wobble" that would alter the
>> spin characteristics, but not end its motion. Furthermore, the
>> effects of that touch (the wobble) would remain as a "fingerprint"
>> as the top spun on into infinity.
>>
>> With that in mind, imagine Earth as a huge top spinning off into
>> infinity in the nearly frictionless vacuum that is space. It is not
>> totally frictionless, however, because there are forces at work on
>> its motion, forces we have already described-the gravitational pulls
>> of the Sun, the Moon, and the other planets, which are often at
>> odds, and which cause those complex perturbations in the angular
>> momentum of spin that are Precession, Obliquity, and Eccentricity.
>> These terms represent "fingerprints" in their own right, since they
>> produce wobbles that are measurable and which have distinct time
>> cycles.
>>
>> If we can consider the known effects to be "fingerprints" caused by
>> the Sun, Moon, and other planets, then we should be able to
>> legitimately consider the unknown effects to be "fingerprints" as
>> well. But fingerprints of what? Passing comets? Passing asteroids?
>> The impacts of either one? All of those choices are certainly
>> possibilities. A large comet or asteroid striking Earth would
>> approximate a slight touch on a spinning top. So would the close
>> passing of very large comets or asteroids. Their gravitational
>> effects might alter Earth’s orbit enough to leave a discernable
>> shift in its motion. But what about regularity?
>>
>> The key word here is cycle. As we have seen, Seasonal Tilting,
>> Precession, Eccentricity, and Obliquity are all cycles of varying
>> length, from one year to over a million years. Does the need for
>> regularity rule out comets or asteroids? The ones that collide with
>> Earth, yes. The ones that orbit very near Earth, not necessarily.
>> The determining factor then becomes size (large enough to have a
>> measurable effect) and consistency (crossing near to Earth on a
>> regular basis). So how big and how close are we talking? The
>> permutations are endless. Gigantic doesn’t need to be too close.
>> Small needs to be extremely close.
>>
>> And then there is Nibiru. According to the Sumerians, Nibiru is
>> approximately three times the size of Earth. That’s more than enough
>> heft to induce some wobble in its spin. They further say that its
>> orbital path brings it to perihelion (the closest point to the Sun)
>> somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where there are
>> millions of miles not cluttered by the Asteroid Belt. That would
>> leave it capable of coming near enough to Earth to leave a
>> "fingerprint" on its orbit. But, again, what about regularity?
>>
>> According to the Sumerians, Nibiru has a 3,600 year orbit. According
>> to the figures given in the "Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of
>> Human Evolution and Prehistory," Earth’s unknown axial wobbles are
>> all-coincidentally or not-evenly divisible by 3,600 years.
>> Interestingly, the four known axial wobbles are not close to being
>> evenly divisible by 3,600 (at 1/3600; 11.389; 113.89; and 27.78
>> respectively). Our hope is that astronomers and/or others with
>> relevant technical expertise who might read this essay will find
>> these numerical oddities as intriguing as we have, and will explore
>> them further.
>>
>> I am not an astronomer. Roger Cunningham is not an astronomer. Dan
>> McWilliams is not an astronomer. We are three men conducting a
>> mental exercise, a game of "what if….?" But it is a game with
>> extremely high stakes. If it can be shown that Nibiru is in fact the
>> most likely source of the unexplained wobbles in Earth’s orbital
>> path, then we have hit a major league home run. Time stands still
>> for a few moments as history shifts into a higher gear. The word
>> "Nobel" gets bandied about. Would that we could be so lucky!
>>
>> It is fortunate that astronomy is not our field, because we do not
>> have egos on the line and are wide open to any and all criticisms.
>> If it turns out we have made some fundamental blunder, or some
>> series of sequential blunders, that have led us down the garden path
>> to fatally flawed conclusions, we hope knowledgeable readers will
>> inform us. Similarly, if it looks as if we might have hit this one
>> out of the park, we would like to know that, too.
>>
>> If anyone reading this can supply us with expert criticisms and/or
>> critiques of our data, logic, or conclusions, we would very much
>> appreciate hearing from you. You can contact any of us at the
>> following email addresses:
>>
>> Roger B. Cunningham  mailto:RogBC@mindspring.com
>>
>> Dan McWilliams mailto:Dan@coastvillage.com
>>
>> Lloyd Pye mailto:Lloyd@lloydpye.com
>>
>> We thank you for your time and attention, and we hope to hear from
>> some of you soon.
>>
>> See following URL :
>>
>> http://www.coastvil
>> age.com/origins/articles/pye/cyclostratigraphy.htm
>>
>> Karen Lyster, New Zealand
>>
>> http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/2301/Directory.html
>>
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