Our Cosmic Ancestors by Maurice Chatelain Page A

themselves and landed on the Earth to teach the humans how to use the second to measure the passing of time?
    And then everything becomes clear. Seven and nine have always been sacred numbers. Their product multiplied by 100,000 gives us 6.3 million years. Multiplied then by the 360 days of the year and by the 86,400 seconds of the day, we obtain the mysterious Nineveh number of 195,955,200,000,000 seconds of time. And since we know that the Nineveh constant corresponds to the exact length of the sidereal and tropical years as they were 64,800 years ago, this seems to indicate that the landing on Earth of the alien astronauts from lzar did actually occur about that time or maybe a little bit later.
    What happened next, we can only guess. It is quite possible that, after inseminating and educating the human race, they went back to their home planet to report on the results of their mission and returned to our solar system only 13,000 years ago when they thought the human race had become civilized enough. As a strange coincidence, this was the time of the advanced civilization of Atlantis, 1,000 years before its destruction by a cosmic cataclysm; and it could very well be that survivors from Atlantis or their descendants are still in orbit around the Earth, visiting us from time to time.
    There is, however, something else in the discovery of Duncan Lunen that seems to have escaped his brilliant mind. As I said before, the ancient human year of 360 days does not make any sense on the Earth where it does not correspond to any astronomical phenomenon. But it could mean something for alien astronauts orbiting the Earth.
    During a terrestrial solar year of 365 1/4 days, their spacecraft would be sometimes closer and sometimes farther from the Sun. We shall see later that a solar year of 360 days would correspond to a distance from the Sun 1.00968 times shorter than the present distance of the Earth. Assuming for the Earth an average distance of 149.60 millions of kilometres 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 kilometres, and a maximum distance of 151.035 millions of kilometres corresponding to a solar year of 370 1/2 solar days.
This would represent for the Izarian spacecraft an average distance from the Earth of 1.35 millions of kilometres 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 kilometres, which is about the distance of the Moon and corresponds to the minimum delay of the echoes.
    There seem to be a number of other conclusions that could be derived from the discovery of Duncan Lunen; 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 five-fold conjunction of five of the outer planets - Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - an exact alignment of these planets with 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, and 432,000 are found in many sacred texts and legends of the distant past. Why did the Mayas,