During the middle of the Eocene, about 40 million years ago...

On 11/6/10 3:33 PM, oriel36 wrote:
Hey Sam,how many times does a star return to the same position 3
minutes 56 seconds earlier from...

366.24 rotations in one year (vernal equinox to vernal equinox).

On Nov 6, 8:49*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 11/6/10 3:33 PM, oriel36 wrote:

Hey Sam,how many times does a star return to the same position 3
minutes 56 seconds earlier from...

* *366.24 rotations in one year (vernal equinox to vernal equinox).

Ah,who has the will to live as opposed to the temptation to lie and
that is the mark of a human being and their worth ?.It is love of
nature and the celestial arena that always has drawn observers to
comprehend,as far as they may,the connection between an individual
life and the greater life that encompasses it,for me it is a facet of
my Christian faith.So what if one man made a silly mistake and drew a
particularly bad conclusion,the very existence of the day/night cycle
of Feb 29th and the 24 hour rotation eases understanding of the
averaging process which uses rotation to natural noon and the 365 full
rotations in one orbital year.

It is when readers shift attention to the current cycle stretching
from Mar 1st 2008 until Feb 29th 2012 that all things become clear and
it is an enjoyable experience putting all the pieces together where
365 1/4 rotations correspond to 365 1/4 days and 1 orbital cycle.You
are on the wrong side of an astronomical argument for while it would
have been perfectly acceptable to keep the Ra/Dec framework as an
extension and convenience of the calendar system thereby showing
yourselves to be astronomers,it looks like you are going to struggle
on defending a conclusion of a single guy in the late 17th century.