Subject: Last Lunar Harrah of the Millennium
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 03:32:35 EST
"Last Lunar Harrah of the Millennium"
This year will be the first full moon to occur on the
winter solstice, Dec.22, in 133 years. Mark your
Calendar if these sorts of events excite you.
It will be the Last Lunar Harrah of the Millennium:
In laymen's terms it will be a super bright full moon,
much brighter than the usual.
Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurs in
conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's
orbit that is closest to Earth) The moon will appear
about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in
its elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth) since
the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun
at this time of the year than in the summer, sunlight
striking the moon is about 7% stronger making it brighter.
Also, this will be the closest perigee of the Moon of the
year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. If
the weather is clear and there is a snow cover where
you live, it is believed that even car headlights will be
superfluous.
On December 21st. 1866 the Lakota Sioux took
advantage of this combination of occurrences and
staged a devastating retaliatory ambush on soldiers
in the Wyoming Territory.
Our ancestors 133 years ago saw this. Our descendants
100 or so years from now will see this again.
Remember, this will happen December 22, 1999.....
{From Gerald Nash}
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"10 Reasons Santa must be a System Administrator"
1. Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.
2. When you ask Santa for something, the odds
of receiving what you wanted are infinitesimal.
3. Santa seldom answers your mail.
4. When you ask Santa where he gets all the
stuff he's got, he says, "Elves make it for me."
5. Santa doesn't care about your deadlines.
6. Your parents ascribed supernatural powers
to Santa, but did all the work themselves.
7. Nobody knows who Santa has to answer to
for his actions.
8. Santa laughs entirely too much.
9. Santa thinks nothing of breaking into your HOME.
10. Only a lunatic says bad things about Santa in
his presence.
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