The French RevolutionaryCalendar(1793-1806) was pretty cool because it involved 12 months of 30 days each— and, according toAstronomyAnswers Web site,

Maybe Grover's interest inastronomyhas something to do with him being born on a leap year. Or maybe he really is destined to compete in the Olympics,

...he realized that the 365-daycalendardidn't quite equal the solar year, according to Anthony Fasano, an adjunctastronomyand earth science professor

This past year also saw the first test flights of the Stratospheric Observatory for InfraredAstronomy(SOFIA) 747 airborne infrared observatory,

Caroline Sumners, the museum's vice president forastronomyand the physical sciences, says visitors often stare at the pendulum until they see a pin fall.

EVERY four years we get an extra day to keep thecalendarin line withastronomy. This produces people who live until they are 360 and ladies of a desperate

To wit: Who are you to wish me well on holidays drawn from your"rational" sun-worshipping eurocentriccalendar? My lunarcalendar, where holidays show up

...he realized that the 365-daycalendardidn't quite equal the solar year, according to Anthony Fasano, an adjunctastronomyand earth science professor

Check out the museum's planetarium, where you can sit down and crane your neck for a variety ofastronomy-related shows on its dome-shaped ceiling.

Bacon wrote,"Thecalendaris intolerable to all wisdom, the horror ofastronomy, and a laughing-stock from a mathematician’s point of view.