home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!ilan
- From: ilan@leland.Stanford.EDU (ilan vardi)
- Subject: Re: Calendar
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.203418.17246@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 20:34:18 GMT
- Lines: 12
-
- There is a high probability of a lunar eclipse during Passover. In
- fact, given that non Israeli Jews celebrate Passover on two successive
- evenings, the probability that some passover celebration in the world
- occurs during a lunar eclipse must be quite high (perhaps > 1/10).
- This does not hold for Easter since the computation uses a pseudo
- lunar computation (the Paschal moon).
-
- Similarly for a solar eclipse on the Jewish new year. I would say
- about 10 times more likely than on another given date of the Gregorian
- calendar.
-
- -ilan
-