http://www.astronomynews.it/rss.xml A RSS news feed about astronomy news vertical portal , astronomy calendar , amateur astronomy , star astronomy , astronomy magazine , astronomy education en-us http://www.tradeworlds.com/ News www.astronomynews.it www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533071.html The French RevolutionaryCalendar(1793-1806) was pretty cool because it involved 12 months of 30 days each— and, according toAstronomyAnswers Web site, Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:35 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533070.html 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, Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:34 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533066.html ...he realized that the 365-daycalendardidn't quite equal the solar year, according to Anthony Fasano, an adjunctastronomyand earth science professor Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:33 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533067.html This past year also saw the first test flights of the Stratospheric Observatory for InfraredAstronomy(SOFIA) 747 airborne infrared observatory, Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:33 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533068.html Caroline Sumners, the museum's vice president forastronomyand the physical sciences, says visitors often stare at the pendulum until they see a pin fall. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:33 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533069.html 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 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:33 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533064.html To wit: Who are you to wish me well on holidays drawn from your"rational" sun-worshipping eurocentriccalendar? My lunarcalendar, where holidays show up Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:32 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533065.html ...he realized that the 365-daycalendardidn't quite equal the solar year, according to Anthony Fasano, an adjunctastronomyand earth science professor Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:32 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533058.html 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. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:31 GMT www.astronomynews.it/pages_3533060.html Bacon wrote,"Thecalendaris intolerable to all wisdom, the horror ofastronomy, and a laughing-stock from a mathematician’s point of view. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:46:31 GMT