Re: VMs: Astronomical Note

["Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Seeing a kind of regularity here (6-year intervals of eclipses with 12-year 
> pauses), I'd assume it has to do with the undulations of the lunar orbit. 
> Deducing from there, I guess Robert has singled out the intervals where 
> eclipses occur at all.

Exactly.

> Unfortunately, having some 30 years with eclipses as opposed to 70 without 
> them, this is probably not really helping in pinning down the date of origin of 
> the VM.

Well, it does eliminate 70% of the century...   : )

Robert

"Drop the hot sauce, and step away from the nose!"  --Shego

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