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The Jupiter Effect

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  • March 10, 1982: Could planetary alignment predict doomsday?
    Today in History—March 10
    / The Day the Planets Aligned—and the World Didn’t End

    …thanks to the 1974 book The Jupiter Effect, in which scientists John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann claimed that the temporary alignment of the planets in 1982 would lead to global disasters of devastating proportions—tidal waves, catastrophic storms, and earthquakes (oh my!). They wrote that such chaos would occur because the…

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    …thanks to the 1974 book The Jupiter Effect, in which scientists John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann claimed that the temporary alignment of the planets in 1982 would lead to global disasters of devastating proportions—tidal waves, catastrophic storms, and earthquakes (oh my!). They wrote that such chaos would occur because the…

    Read More