At 02:52 PM 6/15/04 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: >http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/venustransit/gallery_08jun04_page9.htm > >http://makeashorterlink.com/?X17162398 > >"Every 17 years, a dozen states from Delaware to >Illinois are treated to a springtime emergence of the >Brood X (Magicicada septendecim) periodical cicadas. >The inch-and-one-half, red-eyed, winged, noisy but >harmless insects arrive in astronomical numbers. Year >2004 CE is the first since 797 CE that the two great >periodical phenomena, a Brood X emergence and a >transit of Venus, have occurred simultaneously. As >there were no telescopes around in 797 CE, this >photograph taken June 8, 2004 in Baltimore's Druid >Hill Park by astronomer Herman M. Heyn, shows THE >WORLD'S FIRST Brood X cicada ever to watch a transit >of Venus."
I'm surprised that I haven't heard more from the nutball contingent about this portending the end of the world (like apparently everything else does) . . . -- Ronn! ;-) (I am having e-mail problems this weekend.)
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