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originally posted by: BELIEVERpriest
a reply to: Utnapisjtim
While I do believe in parallel dimensions, I feel that the lunar event of 2012 was more of a electro-gravitic perturbation of the moon. I see the solar system as a circuit board of super-conducting capacitors. The planetary and lunar orbital paths are mostly determined by quantum locking and spin liquid magnetism. I think gravity has more of an effect on stable matter rather than ions. I did a search on other forums of similarly described events, and I found claims by a few people that this has happened in 2011, and 2010. Once near the summer solstice, and once near the winter solstice. But again there is no further documentation of the actual occurrance. For all we know it could be Sirius giving us the finger.
But back to the calendar and missing history, do you have any ideas what TPTB might want to hide by skipping days and turn the Sun and Moon as they were lamps or props?
Eclipses occur only near the lunar nodes: Solar eclipses occur when the passage of the Moon through a node coincides with the new moon; lunar eclipses occur when passage coincides with the full moon. A lunar eclipse may occur if there is a full moon within 11° 38' (Celestial Longitude), of a node, and a solar eclipse may occur if there is a new moon within 17° 25' of a node.
The plane of the lunar orbit precesses in space and hence the lunar nodes precess around the ecliptic, completing a revolution (called a draconic or nodal period, the period of nutation) in 6798.3835 days or 18.612958 years (note that this is not the same length as a saros). The same cycle, measured against an inertial frame of reference such as ICRS (relative to the stars) is 18.599525 years.
To get back in step with astronomical reality, a number of days were dropped in the new calendar, creating irregular months with only 18 days and odd dates like February 30.
originally posted by: BELIEVERpriest
a reply to: Utnapisjtim
Im not sure what other errors exist, or how to account for them, but what I do know is that the time gap between the Vernal New Moons of 30 AD and 2004 AD should be 104 metonic cycles (19 x 104). These are my new calculations:
Metonic cycle is: 6,939.688 days or 19.00025 solar years
Tropical year is: 365.242 days
2004-30=1974 years
1974/19.00025= 103.10663018 metonic cycles
104-103.1063018= 2.026000775 years
Or
2 Tropical years, 9 Days, 11 Hours, and 54.7 Minutes
That is the amount of time omitted by Nasa's and the US Navy's lunar records. Pope Gregory may have made adjustments to "fix" some errors or whatever the problem was, but in the process, he erased 2 years and 9.5 days. Its not hard to fix.
This problem only occurs in the AD system. The BC system is in perfect harmony with the intercalated Mayan calendar.
The sidereal year is the time taken for the Earth to complete one revolution of its orbit, as measured against a fixed frame of reference (such as the fixed stars, Latin sidera, singular sidus). Its average duration is 365.256363004 mean solar days (365 d 6 h 9 min 9.76 s) (at the epoch J2000.0 = January 1, 2000, 12:00:00 TT).
Today the tropical year is defined as the period of time for the ecliptic longitude of the Sun to increase by 360 degrees.[4] Since the Sun's ecliptic longitude is measured with respect to the equinox, the tropical year comprises a complete cycle of the seasons; because of the biological and socio-economic importance of the seasons, the tropical year is the basis of most calendars. The modern definition of mean tropical year differs from the actual time between passages of e.g. the northward equinox for several reasons explained below. Because of the Earth's axial precession, this year is about 20 minutes shorter than the sidereal year. The mean tropical year is approximately 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds[5] (= 365.24219 days).
The anomalistic year is the time taken for the Earth to complete one revolution with respect to its apsides. The orbit of the Earth is elliptical; the extreme points, called apsides, are the perihelion, where the Earth is closest to the Sun (January 3 in 2011), and the aphelion, where the Earth is farthest from the Sun (July 4 in 2011). The anomalistic year is usually defined as the time between perihelion passages. Its average duration is 365.259636 days (365 d 6 h 13 min 52.6 s) (at the epoch J2011.0).[6]
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At the time of Meton, axial precession had not yet been discovered, and he could not distinguish between sidereal years (currently: 365.256363 days) and tropical years (currently: 365.242190 days). Most calendars, like the commonly used Gregorian calendar, are based on the tropical year and maintain the seasons at the same calendar times each year. Nineteen tropical years are about two hours shorter than 235 synodic months. The Metonic cycle's error is, therefore, one full day every 219 years, or 12.4 parts per million.
Considering a year to be 1⁄19 of this 6,940-day cycle gives a year length of 365 + 1⁄4 + 1⁄76 days (the unrounded cycle is much more accurate), which is slightly more than 12 synodic months. To keep a 12-month lunar year in pace with the solar year, an intercalary 13th month would have to be added on seven occasions during the nineteen-year period (235 = 19 × 12 + 7). When Meton introduced the cycle around 432 BC, it was already known by Babylonian astronomers.