did you know that the spring equinox happens at the wrong time every year because of a decree by the pope in the 1500's?

[Cookie Monster]

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Edited March 5, 2018 by Ocean Form

[Marblehead]

Well, they got Christmas and Easter wrong too.

 

[Nungali]

No,  the Spring Equinox does not happen at the wrong time of year  .... it happens at the time of year when the day and night length are equal  in spring . No one  can make that wrong

 

Maybe you mean some people  calculate it  or  celebrate it at the wrong time of year ?

 

( And a Pope made it more extreme in the Bronze Age  ?   .....   ) 

Edited January 1, 2018 by Nungali

[Marblehead]

Yes, "celebrate it at the wrong time (day) of year".  That was my understanding.

 

But the Earth wobbles just perfectly.

 

[silent thunder]

hmm, your comment made me wonder if The Procession Of The Equinnoxes is really just the Earth hitting its 'speed wobble'.

 

[Marblehead]

Yep.  The wobble allows for seasons.  Without the wobble we would have one season all year long like some places at the equator and the poles have.

 

 

 

[Nungali]

I think you mean 'tilt of axis'  - that makes the seasons .   The 'wobble'   is usually referring to the  tilt of the axis rotating, the top of the axis circulating one way and the bottom the other way.

 

axial tilt and seasons

 

 

 

 

Axial rotation (wobble ) causing precession

 

 

 

[Nungali]

Imagine the types of days and seasons  on Uranus !