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34 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
nomical phenomenon. But it could mean something for aHen astronauts
orbiting the earth.
During a terrestrial solar year of 365^ days, their spacecraft
would be sometimes closer and sometimes farther from the sun.
We have seen before that a solar year of 360 days would correspond
to a distance from the sun 1.009684 times shorter than the
present distance of the earth. Assuming for the earth an average
distance of 149.60 millions of kilometers and a 360-day orbit for
the minimum distance of the Izarian spacecraft, we obtain for
that spacecraft a minimum distance from the sun of 148.165 millions
of kilometers, and a maximum distance of 151.035 millions
of kilometers corresponding to a solar year of 370V2 solar days.
This would represent for the Izarian spacecraft an average distance
from the earth of 1.435 millions of kilometers for a circular
orbit, but it is very likely that the spacecraft transferred from
time to time into an elliptical orbit around the earth to get a
closer look at the human race or even land and visit them. In
that case, its minimum distance from the earth could be as low
as 450,000 kilometers which is about the distance of the moon
and corresponds to the minimum delay of the echoes.
There seems to be a number of other conclusions that could be
derived from the discovery of Duncan Lunan, but I have no
room left here to discuss them and they will be the subject of another
book. Let us just say for the time being that the discovery
of the Izarian spaceship seems to explain the origin of the Constant
of Nineveh.
One may ask why the constant of the solar system should have
been calculated 64,800 years ago, and the answer may be that it
was the time of a special configuration of the planets in our solar
system. If my calculations are right, there was at the time a fivefold
conjunction of five of the outer planets—Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune—an exact alignment of these planets
v^dth the sun which is so rare it takes place only once every 4,627
years. Personally, I like this number "64,800" because it is exactly
six times the number 10,800 that was the sacred number of the
Chaldean and Hindu astrologers so the number 64,800 must have
been the sacred number of cultures long before the Hindus and
the Chaldeans.
The number 360 and its different multiples like 10,800; 86,400;