Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year!

It is the Year 3962 as counted from 1953 BCE.



The Sun (visible right below the transparent horizon), the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were all grouped closely together in the dawn sky at the beginning of spring. All of the hands of the celestial clockwork set to zero!

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