Goodbye 2009 with a Blue Moon
>> Thursday, December 31, 2009
Bid 'Adieu' to the by-going 2009 with a charmer Blue Moon. Usher in the 2010 with the illuminating Blue Moon in the night sky, and watch it wane with the first rays of the New Year sun. Just cast your glance, hold the hands of your love and you will be transported to an utopic land. Well, that's what the moon is known to do. But with this shimmering blue moon can the cupid struck remain unfazed? I, myself, am waiting to catch a glimpse of it with bated breath. It is an 'once in a blue moon' occurrence for sure! Do you want to know the trivia? READ MORE
A Blue Moon is a rare phenomenon. When the full moon occurs in an untimely pattern giving a toss to the monthly lunar cycle, we get to witness a Blue Moon. For all you guys who thought it is an out of the world astronomic event and that the phrase "once in a blue moon" is a corny coinage, you are wrong. Let me share with you one unknown fact that most of us do not get to know in our Physics classes in school. We know that every month has a quota of a full moon to keep parity with the lunar cycle. If your mathematics is correct, you have counted 12 full moons, right?
Did you know that each solar calendar surpasses the lunar calendar by approximately 11 days? Quirky it might sound to most of us who are not astronomy geeks. But this surplus 11 days, if you call them so, needs to be balanced and adjusted with the lunar count, right? Bedlam will not break loose if our debits and credits columns in the accounts book do not match, except for the fact that we might get a pink slip from our employees. But a lil' discrepancy in the solar system can be disastrous. Therefore, these extra days add up in the accounts book of the solar system. [Don't know if the Sun god keeps an accountant or does it himself. If he does, volunteer who wants to apply? ;)] and every two or three years we get a gift hamper in the form of an extra Blue Moon.
The most obvious question to a layman like me is why do we term it as a Blue Moon? The physicists have a bland answer to this. A nerd would say that the dust particles accumulated in the atmosphere, the escalating pollution level, and the topsy turvy environmental changes have many impish effects on nature. therefore, we earth people have blue moons, as the moon appears in the garb of a pale blue robe. The devil has some tempting provocations. If you hold this theory to your heart, then you will accept that pollution has at least gifted us something as spectacular as the Blue Moon, with which you can have a tete-a-tete tonight.
Do you want to calculate the next Blue Moon year? You would not have an Einstein's formula to deduce that. But you can find the answer here.
Did you know that each solar calendar surpasses the lunar calendar by approximately 11 days? Quirky it might sound to most of us who are not astronomy geeks. But this surplus 11 days, if you call them so, needs to be balanced and adjusted with the lunar count, right? Bedlam will not break loose if our debits and credits columns in the accounts book do not match, except for the fact that we might get a pink slip from our employees. But a lil' discrepancy in the solar system can be disastrous. Therefore, these extra days add up in the accounts book of the solar system. [Don't know if the Sun god keeps an accountant or does it himself. If he does, volunteer who wants to apply? ;)] and every two or three years we get a gift hamper in the form of an extra Blue Moon.
The most obvious question to a layman like me is why do we term it as a Blue Moon? The physicists have a bland answer to this. A nerd would say that the dust particles accumulated in the atmosphere, the escalating pollution level, and the topsy turvy environmental changes have many impish effects on nature. therefore, we earth people have blue moons, as the moon appears in the garb of a pale blue robe. The devil has some tempting provocations. If you hold this theory to your heart, then you will accept that pollution has at least gifted us something as spectacular as the Blue Moon, with which you can have a tete-a-tete tonight.
Do you want to calculate the next Blue Moon year? You would not have an Einstein's formula to deduce that. But you can find the answer here.
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2 Comments:
d best thing abt ur blog articles are tat u do ur homework really well whn it comes 2d research..while wishing u a happy new yr ahead, hope this continues 4 a long time 2 come!!
d article was really informative as always..gud job amrita!!
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