Science@NASA has a great story about two Friday the 13ths (click to listen). There’s also a text version but Tony does a good read of it so you should listen to him (although the web page does have a few diagrams).
NASA’s got the audio sounding better than it used to and their MP3 tags are much better but they’ve still got to fix the filename (it’s always story.mp3).
Hehe, I get these via email, too. Friday 13th’s are usually very good to me. 13 is my lucky number. Case in point, Friday the 13th, 2029. We couldn’t get luckier than that, eh?
Plus, my dad dropped by this past Friday the 13th, for a suprise weekend visit. We enjoyed nice cold beers and did some BBQ, all the while enjoying everything the night sky had to offer. He was able to see Jupiter with it’s four largest moons -Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto- and Saturn with it slender and beautiful rings. He also enjoyed the moon, and how wonderful it was to be able to see the craters and mares in such detail. He was awe-struck!
I’ll go with the first calculation. The guys in question who first released their data were probably pretty scrupulous with their calculations before releasing that kind of announcement. While chances are 1-60 I am interested in hearing the new calculation after the Dec. 26 Indo earthquake that actually may have altered with rotation calculations and tilt. NASA’s later release is well, very wordy and safe with no detail. And I agree with that philosophy in this circumstance because humanity can’t comprehend its impact both physically and mentally. Between the collapse of world religions (Christianity does prophet an event like this in Rev. 8:1-13 but I