NOVEMBER 21, 2001: A new gravity map of the Earth shows that the pull of gravity is less in India. If you were in India you would be slightly less than 1% lighter than elsewhere on the planet. The gravity map has been prepared to help scientists plan the forthcoming Grace (Gravity Recovery And Climatic Experiment) satellites, to be launched in a few weeks. Earth is lumpy and so is its gravitational field. The low gravity off the coast of India is thought to be due to the remains of some old tectonic feature, which was left over from the collision of the Indian sub-continent into the Eurasian tectonic plate that gave rise to the Himalayas. Hinduism Today’s staff once encountered in the 1980s some scientists at Chidambaram Temple in South India who said the temple location had an unusually strong gravitational field. It’s not known how or if that research corresponds with this present study.
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