Did you just feel the earth tilt?

[packman]

Sept. 22 marks the fall equinox, ushering in the year’s best season on a day that lasts almost exactly 12 hours no matter where you are on the globe.




I hope all of you out there in DU land celebrate in some appropriate way: We are going to have a neighborhood chant circle at the setting of the sun.


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[underpants]

1. Under my feet?

[Strelnikov_]

4. . . . and was the sky tumbling down?

[maxsolomon]

2. i've been watching the sunrise move south for weeks

it's directly east of my house RN.

one more trip around the sun.

[elleng]

3. Sun on the skys equator

The equinox will strike, like a bell, on Friday September 22, 2017. It heralds fall in America, autumn in Europe, and spring in the Southern Hemisphere. So the safe term for it is the September equinox.

It is the moment at which the sun, traveling as ever on the ecliptic, crosses southward over that other sky-circling line, the celestial equator. This moment is 20:02 Universal Time, which is four or more hours earlier by clocks in North America.

http://earthsky.org/earth/sun-earth-equinox-explanation-illustrations-ottewell?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/122853593

[Takket]

5. That one woman forgot her hood!

[pangaia]

6. Thanks for posting. I thought something felt weird.

I'll be going out for sushi..

[NobodyHere]

7. Is that a KKK rally?

[rusty fender]

8. My reaction also

[MrsCoffee]

14. Look more like Druids to me.

[NobodyHere]

15. KKK Druids?

[niyad]

9. blessed be.

[edhopper]

10. you can balance an egg on it's egg today

of course you can balance an egg on it's end every day

[LeftInTX]

11. The sun is rising at the South Pole!

The poles are the only places that do not have 12 hours of daylight!

[KatyMan]

12. Weird, I sort of vaguely knew today as the first day

of fall, didn't really equate the word Equinox with it, but a bit of serendipity: I was looking for some background music to put on while working from home today and just for grins I put on my Styx playlist...first album up was called Equinox! Neato! Kismet!

[DoctorPepper]

13. It actually tilted a little more today thanks to a spacecraft slingshot fly-by

“We’re essentially stealing a bit of the Earth’s momentum as we go by,” said Michael Moreau, who leads Osiris-Rex’s navigation team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

As a consequence, Earth’s tilt will change ever so slightly, too small to be worth calculating. “It would be a very small number,” Dr. Moreau said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/science/osiris-rex-flyby-nasa.html