(18)    Sat 20 Dec 97  1:09
By: Jack Sargeant
To: ALL
Re: Earth's climate
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From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 05:31:46 +0200
Subject: Fwd: A Link Between The Earth And Stars

Found at the site of The Nando Times. URL:

http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/health/121897/health16_29534_noframes.
html


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A link between the Earth and stars


Copyright =A91997 Nando.net
Copyright =A91997 Reuters=20


LONDON (December 18, 1997 11:12 a.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - The
Earth's destiny really is written in the stars, according to new
research released Wednesday, but that doesn't mean scientists have now
given their backing to astrology.

Scientists have discovered the earth's orbit can be influenced by the
way geophysical processes deep within its crust interact with the solar
system's movement.

Features of the Earth's orbit, such as the rotation of the poles and
changes in the tilt of its axis, may be influenced by factors such as
the way the crust is affected by the melting of continental ice sheets.

At the same time, changes in the Earth's orbit affect the amount of sun
that falls on the Earth, according to Alessandro Forte of the Institut
de Physique du Globe in Paris and Jerry Mitrovica of Canada's
University of Toronto.

Geophysical processes can alter the earth's orbit and this, in turn,
can affect the long-term climate, the researchers wrote in the
scientific journal  Nature.

Their investigations suggested the Earth had, at some period in the
last 20 million years, passed through the gravitational influence of
the planets Jupiter and Saturn and this influenced the way the earth's
tilt changed during that time.

The scientists' work will allow them to look at what the Earth's
climate was like and how it might turn out.=20

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