The Wobbling of the Earth and Other Curiosities
Jim Heckman's Reply
December 30, 1999
John Baez wrote:
> Answer: The period of the precession is 26,000 years. This is easy to
> guess if you remember that Christ was born in the age of Pisces
Uh, yeah... That's a handy fact I always keep close at hand. ;-)
> and right now we're getting close to the age of Aquarius.
Yowza! So that's what that means! You sometimes learn the strangest
things in the strangest places on Usenet...
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