For Luke the breach between heaven and earth is closing.
Today Earth is closest to the Sun (perihelion) near the December solstice, whereas 9,000 years ago perihelion occurred near the June solstice.
"The 'inside' of the earth is closer to the surface than we had thought," wrote Lamont seismologist Jack Oliver, in his 1959 Scientific American cover story, Long Earthquake Waves.
The part of the orbit when the earth is closest to the sun is called Perihelion and currently it occurs during the Northern Hemisphere winter.
"Life is present due to the fact that Earth is relatively safe from a true damaging long GRB, those which will cause total extinction," says Jimenez. "If Earth was closer by a factor of two to the centre of the galaxy, life would be gone".
In the author's northern youth, that pillaged earth "was close.
That's right: the actual number of potential Earths is closer to 40 billion -- that's one in every five stars, just in our galaxy alone -- with that number possibly much higher (Kepler is reportedly very sorry it conked out too soon to tell us more).
Scarcely had Curtius sprung p235 into it mounted, when the earth-fissure was closed and no one ever beheld either the chasm or Curtius.
Most of the country's rare earth factories have been closed since early August, including those under government control, to allow for installation of pollution control equipment that must be in place by Oct. 1, executives and regulators said.
Nuclear power plants -- all 443 on the earth today -- should be closed and no new ones built.
