Astronomers, any truth in this.
22 February 2006, 07:57 PM
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Astronomers, any truth in this.
Have any of you stargazers heard of this theorum.
The Tartarus rotation??
on the lines of the Davinci code, etc, Matthew Reilly has a new book out that covers the seven wonder of the world,
All revolves around the Tartarus rotation, curiously enough its supposed to happen on march 20th this year
Have any of you heard of it??
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The Tartarus rotation??
on the lines of the Davinci code, etc, Matthew Reilly has a new book out that covers the seven wonder of the world,
All revolves around the Tartarus rotation, curiously enough its supposed to happen on march 20th this year
Have any of you heard of it??
Mart
22 February 2006, 08:27 PM
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I think in the book this is a super hot sunspot which turns to face the earth every 4,600 years or something. The sun spins around, relative to us, about once a month so it would certainly be an extremely sluggish sunspot.
The other thing is that sunspots tend to be cooler than the rest of the surface of the sun, though there is some connection between the sunspot cycle and the total output of the sun, hence why our climate varys relative to the timing of the sunspot cycle.
Also 2006 is likely to be the period of minimum solar activity in the current sunspot cycle and while the last two years or so have seen the sun somewhat more active than would normally be expected at this phase of the cycle the last 2 months have seen a very quiet sun probably indicating that we are indeed at the solar minimum.
Of more interest this year is the fact that we will have a major standstill of the moon which will be best observed at the full moon on 6th July.
The other thing is that sunspots tend to be cooler than the rest of the surface of the sun, though there is some connection between the sunspot cycle and the total output of the sun, hence why our climate varys relative to the timing of the sunspot cycle.
Also 2006 is likely to be the period of minimum solar activity in the current sunspot cycle and while the last two years or so have seen the sun somewhat more active than would normally be expected at this phase of the cycle the last 2 months have seen a very quiet sun probably indicating that we are indeed at the solar minimum.
Of more interest this year is the fact that we will have a major standstill of the moon which will be best observed at the full moon on 6th July.
22 February 2006, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by hedgehog
Of more interest this year is the fact that we will have a major standstill of the moon which will be best observed at the full moon on 6th July.
does this mean the moon will effectivly freeze in its orbit??
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22 February 2006, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mart360
can you expand on this please??
does this mean the moon will effectivly freeze in its orbit??
Mart
does this mean the moon will effectivly freeze in its orbit??
Mart
should I play the lottery?
22 February 2006, 09:12 PM
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Nope, though it is nearly as impressive :-)
The full moon nearest mid-summer will not rise very high above the horizon and will not be up for very long. It is sort of like mid-winter for the moon in many ways except it only happens approx every 18 years.
This is especially important at the stone circle at Callanish which Thom suggested was constructed to both predict the major standstill and also then to align with it. There is even some written evidence for this recorded by the Greeks who documented what, as I recall, they called a temple which did the alignment thing and I believe they also gave hints as to how the prediction of the event was done.
At Callanish the moon will rise and basically roll along the horizon before setting again.
More info is available, this was what popped out of google for me:
http://www.astrocal.co.uk/callanish.html
The full moon nearest mid-summer will not rise very high above the horizon and will not be up for very long. It is sort of like mid-winter for the moon in many ways except it only happens approx every 18 years.
This is especially important at the stone circle at Callanish which Thom suggested was constructed to both predict the major standstill and also then to align with it. There is even some written evidence for this recorded by the Greeks who documented what, as I recall, they called a temple which did the alignment thing and I believe they also gave hints as to how the prediction of the event was done.
At Callanish the moon will rise and basically roll along the horizon before setting again.
More info is available, this was what popped out of google for me:
http://www.astrocal.co.uk/callanish.html
22 February 2006, 10:55 PM
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I bet its cloudy that night, i'd also bet on hotels in the area being booked out too, if the eclipse of a few years ago is anything to go by!
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