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Equinox has brooms and eggs standing by themselves

Posted by Lynn Daily On September - 21 - 2012

KNLV’s JJ Johnnie James Stands by a broom that is unattended by strings…only the equinox pull.

The word equinox is derived from the Latin words meaning “equal night.” The spring and fall equinoxes are the only dates with equal daylight and dark as the Sun crosses the celestial equator. At the equinoxes, the tilt of Earth relative to the Sun is zero, which means that Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun. (However, the tilt of Earth relative to its plane of orbit, called the ecliptic plane, is always about 23.5 degrees.)

Although the word equinox is often understood to mean “equal [day and] night,” this is not strictly true. For most locations on earth, there are two distinct identifiable days per year when the length of day and night are closest to being equal; those days are referred to as the “equiluxes” to distinguish them from the equinoxes. Equinoxes are points in time, but equiluxes are days. By convention, equiluxes are the days where sunrise and sunset are closest to being exactly 12 hours apart.

Equinox has brooms and eggs standing by themselves

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One Response to “Equinox has brooms and eggs standing by themselves”

  1. John Smith says:

    It looks like the boys at the station might be sipping some “mountain dew”……

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