an astronomer said that Earth’s alignment has shifted enough and there could reasonably be a change in the Zodiac dates, as well as add a new sign.
Astronomer Parke Kunkle told a local Minnesota NBC station that people could be using a new 13th sign is Ophiuchus, creating a significant buzz on various blogs and media sites.
"This is not something that happened today," Kunkle told NBC-2. "This has gone on for thousands of years."
He added that the Earth is in a different spot from 3,000 years ago, when many of the astrological signs were first drafted by ancient astronomers in Babylon. Now, a wobble on Earth’s axis has created a one month shift in the stars' alignment, he told the station.
"Because of this change of tilt, the Earth is really over here in effect and Sun is in a different constellation than it was 3,000 years ago,” he noted.
However, it seems that his words here taken out of context in some instances. Website i09 interviewed Kunkle who said that he "just mentioned that it's there, and astronomers actually count it... So if you actually watch the stars in the background of the sun, it actually does go through the constellation of Ophiuchus."
Kunkle told the website that Babylonians probably had different constellations regardless.
But if you wanted to take the changes into account, your new signs are:
Capricorn: Jan. 20 - Feb. 16, Aquarius: Feb. 16 - March 11, Pisces: March 11- April 18, Aries: April 18- May 13, Taurus: May 13- June 21, Gemini: June 21- July 20, Cancer: July 20- Aug. 10, Leo: Aug. 10- Sept. 16, Virgo: Sept. 16- Oct. 30, Libra: Oct. 30- Nov. 23, Scorpio: Nov. 23- Nov. 29, Ophiuchus: Nov. 29- Dec. 17, and Sagittarius: Dec. 17- Jan. 20.
Kunkle teaches astronomy at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College and is a board member on the Minnesota Planetarium Society. He told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that the stars don’t really have an effect on people’s characters.
"Sure, we can connect harvest to the stars," Kunkle told the paper. "But personality? No."
No comments:
Post a Comment