Hi Linton; Sterling & the Venusians;
"Oops" - Not at all, it's great that you will have the opportunity to
see such an event twice in a lifetime! Most generations never have
that opportunity...
"a toddler of today could well be alive in 2117" (Sterling)
"which no living primate will likely recall when the next" (Doug)
Living? they'll need to see and recall, too ;-), well, maybe you're
right, Scandinavian toddlers are getting smarter and younger every day.
I wouldn't put it past a met-list member projecting the transit on the
inside of baby's Quaker Oats container, and then sending the tyke to
listen to to the secret Swedish methods of Mattias!
http://www.mattiasribbing.se/forelasningar.php !
Kindest wishes
Doug
Sterling - thanks for the clarification on the independence of the two
cycles ... I had assumed they were related, ah, which makes me prime
material for a Mayan sacrifice (Most Mayan sacrifices were determined
by the periodicity of Venus ...)
-----Original Message-----
From: Linton Rohr <[email protected]>
To: Sterling K. Webb <[email protected]>; Meteorite-list
<[email protected]>; MexicoDoug <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 9:19 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012
Oops! I failed to read all of the thread before jumping in there.
Apologies to Doug and thanks to you Sterling, for clarifying the
'series'
aspect.
Linton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[email protected]>
To: "Linton Rohr" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; "MexicoDoug" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012
Between the "pairs" of transits eight years apart,
there is either 105.5 years or 121.5 years to the
next pair (depending on the series). The nest
transit after this one is on Dec. 11, 2117. Given
our increasing longevity, a toddler of today could
well be alive in 2117.
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/transit/catalog/VenusCatalog.html
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linton Rohr" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "MexicoDoug"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012
"...the transit of Venus on this upcoming June 6, the likes of
which no
living primate will likely recall when the next opportunity shadows
earth, nor who can recall the last one!"
Doug,
While you're most certainly correct that none amongst us will see
the
next one (in 2117), I'm actually old enough to remember the transit
of
Venus in 2004. ;^) They come in pairs 8 years apart, separated by
105
years. I hope we're all still here in June, to observe this one. One
never knows...
Best wishes to all,
Linton
----- Original Message -----
From: "MexicoDoug" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012
"Maybe the Mayans were right, and 2012 will see us go out in a
blaze of
meteorite impacts!"
Hi Ed, List;
Poor Mayans, haven't they suffered enough at the hands of multiple
opressors to now be attributed this kooky modern rage. As the most
scientifically advanced society in the world of that age, countless
unnamed brilliant Mayan scientists and astronomers that 2012 is
most
sacred because of the transit of Venus on this upcoming June 6, the
likes of which no living primate will likely recall when the next
opportunity shadows earth, nor who can recall the last one!.
They don't make calendars like they used to... Last year my free
bank
calendar ended in December 2011, but my insurance agent's company
was so
kind to save the world by giving me a complimentary 2012 calendar
to
read, buying more time before the whole thing goes *poop* the same
way
it apparently began ;-)
Kindest wishes
Doug
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