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Dr. Ph. Pitluga van het Adler Planetarium in Chicago berekende met de computer de posities van de sterren boven Nazca en kwam tot de conclusie dat de beroemde spin was ontworpen als een aardse weergave van het sterrenbeeld Orion. De kaarsrechte lijnen die uit de
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Phillis Pitluga, an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, believes, based on computer aided studies of star alignments, that the giant spider figure is an anamorphic diagram of the constellation Orion. She further suggests that three of the straight lines leading to the figure were used to track the changing declinations of the three stars of Orion's Belt but does not take into account the other twelve lines.
Aveni has commented on her work, saying
I really had trouble finding good evidence to back up what she contended. Pitluga never laid out the criteria for selecting the lines she chose to measure, nor did she pay much attention to the archaeological data Clarkson and Silverman had unearthed. Her case did little justice to other information about the coastal cultures, save applying, with subtle contortions, Urtons representations of constellations from the highlands. As historian Jacquetta Hawkes might ask: was she getting the pampa she desired?[7]Zo kan ik het dus ook
