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01/17/11 – Ephemeris – Professor Kunkle’s “Bombshell”

January 17, 2011

Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 17th.  The sun will rise at 8:14.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 15 minutes, setting at 5:30.   The moon, 2 days before full, will set at 7:09 tomorrow morning.

Minneapolis astronomy professor Parke Kunkle recently gave an interview with a reporter stating that the constellations of the Zodiac no longer match the astrological Zodiacal signs.  This caused a great sensation, with people calling up their astrologers wondering what it would do to their horoscopes.  Kunkle’s little bombshell is covered in every first year astronomy course in the precession of the equinoxes, shifting the constellations by one in about 2200 years.  Kunkle also mentioned a thirteenth constellation of the Zodiac.  Scorpius lies mostly below the ecliptic or path of the sun in the sky.  The area above the scorpions tail is Ophiuchus the serpent bearer.  I am an Ophiuchucan, and we Ophiuchans don’t believe in astrology.

* Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.

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