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地球搖擺 星座日期大挪移
中央社 更新日期:"2011/01/14 12:31"
（中央社明尼蘇達州14日綜合外電報導）美國明尼蘇達州1名天文學家證實許多人的猜測：你的星座可能錯了。
英文雅虎新聞（Yahoo! News）報導，地球軸心過去3000年的變動，已經改變了12星座。舉例來說，如果你認為自己是水瓶座，你搞不好其實是雙魚座。同時，根據數千年前的古巴比倫星座，還冒出了第13個星座─蛇夫座（Ophiuchus）。
所以，這種星座日期大挪移要怪誰呢？
明尼阿波利斯（Minneapolis）「明星論壇報」（Star-Tribune）報導，古巴比倫人根據出生時太陽在黃道上的位置判定1個人的星座。自此之後，地球受月球引力影響，導致軸心搖擺（wobble），星座對應的月份因此推移了1個月左右。
天文學家昆克爾（Parke Kunkle）告訴KARE-TV電視台：「由於傾斜角度改變，地球來到這裡，太陽在黃道上通過的星座已經和3000年前開始研究星座時不同。」
他說，這種改變並不是新消息，只是星座算命界忘了把地球搖擺的因素算進去。
新星座算法如下：
摩羯座：1/20-2/16水瓶座：2/16-3/11雙魚座：3/11-4/18牡羊座：4/18-5/13金牛座：5/13-6/21雙子座：6 /21-7/20巨蟹座：7/20-8/10獅子座：8/10-9/16處女座：9/16-10/30天秤座：10/30-11/23天蠍座：11 /23-11/29蛇夫座：11/29-12/17射手座：12/17-1/20（譯者：中央社戴雅真）1000114
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CLEVELAND —
It's a real-life horror story for anyone who reads their horoscope... or has it permanently placed on their body.
"It's a fairly common thing, there's nothing wrong with it," said Sean Robinson from Voodoo Monkey Tattoo on W. 25th in Cleveland. "It's just sorta an easy beginner tattoo because everyone would think, 'Oh, I'll always be a Scorpio, that'll never change,' but now, who knows."
The problem? According to a new report from the Minnesota Planetarium Society, your astrological sign has been very wrong for about 1,000 years. In an interview with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, a leading zodiac expert says signs based on the constellation of where the sun was at the time of your birth, were all off. Oops! According to the society, the Earth has been wobbling on its axis for about 1,000 years and the days didn't align right.
"Oh, any idea that there could be an influence in different constellations coming through the sun on babies on the day you're born is absurd," said Clyde Simpson, the Observatory Coordinator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He doesn't buy it, any of it. "We've been fighting astrology and pseudo-science, superstition, silliness for quite a long time here."
The ancient Babylonians created the system based on where the sun is located when a person is born. All these years later, it morphed into personality traits one can read about in newspapers and magazines. While a lot of people read them, not everyone believes it. "I mean, I think all of that is kinda hokey," said Sean Robinson at Voodoo Monkey. "You know, it's sorta like, there's enough good and bad in each of those that everyone can kinda agree."
Whether the new idea catches on is a whole other story because change is never easy, even if you can see it in the stars. "Sometimes I read it and I think I have, like, a necklace that has a sign on it," said Maggie Smith, a Scorpio. "But, I don't have a Scorpio tattoo and I'm glad I don't if they're gonna change it!"
A recent Harris Poll found that 31-percent of Americans believe in astrology.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
http://io9.com/5733004/your-zodiac-sign-may-have-changed-this-week
Why did your zodiac sign change? We asked the astronomer who started it all
Why did your zodiac sign change? We asked the astronomer who started it allThe internet is burning up with the news that the zodiac has been rearranged. There's a 13th sign, Ophiuchus, and people who think they're Virgos are actually Leos. What happened here? We talked to the astronomer who caused the fuss.
Today, Time, MSNBC and tons of other online news outlets are buzzing about the "new" horoscope. The articles are full of vague explanations like, "The star doctors say Earth right now is in a totally different spot in relation to the sun and its equatorial alignment than it was 3,000 years ago." Or: "Because of the moon's gravitational pull on Earth, the alignment of the stars was pushed by about a month."
What on Earth is going on? And why does everybody suddenly have to work with a new version of the completely meaningless zodiac?
It seems to have started with this article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune last weekend, in which one astronomer made some statements about the zodiac. Parke Kunkle is on the board of directors of the Minnesota Planetarium Society and teaches astronomy at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Kunkle told the Star-Tribune the Earth's relation to the sun had changed since the Babylonians first created the zodiac.
We got in touch with Kunkle and asked him what he actually told the Star-Tribune. He said he was asked by the Star-Tribune to give them a few bits of information about astronomy, not realizing the article would become a huge discussion of astrology and the relationship between astronomy and astrology. And the main stuff he talked to the Star-Tribune about has to do with the phenomenon of "precession."
Says Kunkle:
If you take a toy top and spin it, it spins around an axis and that axis tends to point in different directions. It moves around. That's what we call precession. So in Earth's case, right now, Earth's spin axis points towards Polaris, the North Star. But in 3000 BC, the Earth's axis pointed towards a different star, Thuban. And that majestic motion takes about 26,000 years. so if you went from 3,000 B.C. and waited 26,000 years, you'd have the north star Thuban again.
This phenomenon was first noticed around 130 B.C. by a Greek astronomer, Hipparchus of Nicea. And as a result, if you actually look at what stars were positioned behind the sun on a particular date, that would have been very different 5,000 years ago than it would today. "We're in a different constellation now and that is the typical sun sign," based on the sun's position when you were born.
And no, Parke Kunkle didn't tell the Star-Tribune that the zodiac ought to include 13 signs instead of 12 — especially since he doesn't believe in astrology at all. (He highly recommends Phil Plait's page about astrology.) He did mention that astronomers tend to reckon the sun's position with 13 constellations instead of 12, and Ophiuchus is the 13th. But in the current astrology zodiac, there are just 12. "I just mentioned that it's there, and astronomers actually count it... So if you actually watch the stars in the background of the sun, it actually does go through the constellation of Ophiuchus." He adds that the Babylonians probably had totally different constellations anyway.
Somehow, Kunkle's brief comments in the Star-Tribune article got morphed into "astronomer says the zodiac has to be revamped." As various people have pointed out, this means your entire personality is different than what you originally believed it was — you might be flighty instead of hard-working, or fishy instead of scorpionesque. Taylor Swift is an Ophiuchus!
Such is the power that astronomers wield over all our fates.
地球搖擺 星座日期大挪移
中央社 更新日期:"2011/01/14 12:31"
（中央社明尼蘇達州14日綜合外電報導）美國明尼蘇達州1名天文學家證實許多人的猜測：你的星座可能錯了。
英文雅虎新聞（Yahoo! News）報導，地球軸心過去3000年的變動，已經改變了12星座。舉例來說，如果你認為自己是水瓶座，你搞不好其實是雙魚座。同時，根據數千年前的古巴比倫星座，還冒出了第13個星座─蛇夫座（Ophiuchus）。
所以，這種星座日期大挪移要怪誰呢？
明尼阿波利斯（Minneapolis）「明星論壇報」（Star-Tribune）報導，古巴比倫人根據出生時太陽在黃道上的位置判定1個人的星座。自此之後，地球受月球引力影響，導致軸心搖擺（wobble），星座對應的月份因此推移了1個月左右。
天文學家昆克爾（Parke Kunkle）告訴KARE-TV電視台：「由於傾斜角度改變，地球來到這裡，太陽在黃道上通過的星座已經和3000年前開始研究星座時不同。」
他說，這種改變並不是新消息，只是星座算命界忘了把地球搖擺的因素算進去。
新星座算法如下：
摩羯座：1/20-2/16水瓶座：2/16-3/11雙魚座：3/11-4/18牡羊座：4/18-5/13金牛座：5/13-6/21雙子座：6 /21-7/20巨蟹座：7/20-8/10獅子座：8/10-9/16處女座：9/16-10/30天秤座：10/30-11/23天蠍座：11 /23-11/29蛇夫座：11/29-12/17射手座：12/17-1/20（譯者：中央社戴雅真）1000114
http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-news-zodiac-signs-mz-txt,0,6672176.story
VIDEO ABOVE URL
Rewritten in the Stars: Zodiac Signs Change
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New Zodiac Signs
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11:28 p.m. EST, January 13, 2011
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wjw-news-zodiac-signs-mz-txt
CLEVELAND —
It's a real-life horror story for anyone who reads their horoscope... or has it permanently placed on their body.
"It's a fairly common thing, there's nothing wrong with it," said Sean Robinson from Voodoo Monkey Tattoo on W. 25th in Cleveland. "It's just sorta an easy beginner tattoo because everyone would think, 'Oh, I'll always be a Scorpio, that'll never change,' but now, who knows."
The problem? According to a new report from the Minnesota Planetarium Society, your astrological sign has been very wrong for about 1,000 years. In an interview with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, a leading zodiac expert says signs based on the constellation of where the sun was at the time of your birth, were all off. Oops! According to the society, the Earth has been wobbling on its axis for about 1,000 years and the days didn't align right.
"Oh, any idea that there could be an influence in different constellations coming through the sun on babies on the day you're born is absurd," said Clyde Simpson, the Observatory Coordinator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He doesn't buy it, any of it. "We've been fighting astrology and pseudo-science, superstition, silliness for quite a long time here."
The ancient Babylonians created the system based on where the sun is located when a person is born. All these years later, it morphed into personality traits one can read about in newspapers and magazines. While a lot of people read them, not everyone believes it. "I mean, I think all of that is kinda hokey," said Sean Robinson at Voodoo Monkey. "You know, it's sorta like, there's enough good and bad in each of those that everyone can kinda agree."
Whether the new idea catches on is a whole other story because change is never easy, even if you can see it in the stars. "Sometimes I read it and I think I have, like, a necklace that has a sign on it," said Maggie Smith, a Scorpio. "But, I don't have a Scorpio tattoo and I'm glad I don't if they're gonna change it!"
A recent Harris Poll found that 31-percent of Americans believe in astrology.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
http://io9.com/5733004/your-zodiac-sign-may-have-changed-this-week
Why did your zodiac sign change? We asked the astronomer who started it all
Why did your zodiac sign change? We asked the astronomer who started it allThe internet is burning up with the news that the zodiac has been rearranged. There's a 13th sign, Ophiuchus, and people who think they're Virgos are actually Leos. What happened here? We talked to the astronomer who caused the fuss.
Today, Time, MSNBC and tons of other online news outlets are buzzing about the "new" horoscope. The articles are full of vague explanations like, "The star doctors say Earth right now is in a totally different spot in relation to the sun and its equatorial alignment than it was 3,000 years ago." Or: "Because of the moon's gravitational pull on Earth, the alignment of the stars was pushed by about a month."
What on Earth is going on? And why does everybody suddenly have to work with a new version of the completely meaningless zodiac?
It seems to have started with this article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune last weekend, in which one astronomer made some statements about the zodiac. Parke Kunkle is on the board of directors of the Minnesota Planetarium Society and teaches astronomy at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Kunkle told the Star-Tribune the Earth's relation to the sun had changed since the Babylonians first created the zodiac.
We got in touch with Kunkle and asked him what he actually told the Star-Tribune. He said he was asked by the Star-Tribune to give them a few bits of information about astronomy, not realizing the article would become a huge discussion of astrology and the relationship between astronomy and astrology. And the main stuff he talked to the Star-Tribune about has to do with the phenomenon of "precession."
Says Kunkle:
If you take a toy top and spin it, it spins around an axis and that axis tends to point in different directions. It moves around. That's what we call precession. So in Earth's case, right now, Earth's spin axis points towards Polaris, the North Star. But in 3000 BC, the Earth's axis pointed towards a different star, Thuban. And that majestic motion takes about 26,000 years. so if you went from 3,000 B.C. and waited 26,000 years, you'd have the north star Thuban again.
This phenomenon was first noticed around 130 B.C. by a Greek astronomer, Hipparchus of Nicea. And as a result, if you actually look at what stars were positioned behind the sun on a particular date, that would have been very different 5,000 years ago than it would today. "We're in a different constellation now and that is the typical sun sign," based on the sun's position when you were born.
And no, Parke Kunkle didn't tell the Star-Tribune that the zodiac ought to include 13 signs instead of 12 — especially since he doesn't believe in astrology at all. (He highly recommends Phil Plait's page about astrology.) He did mention that astronomers tend to reckon the sun's position with 13 constellations instead of 12, and Ophiuchus is the 13th. But in the current astrology zodiac, there are just 12. "I just mentioned that it's there, and astronomers actually count it... So if you actually watch the stars in the background of the sun, it actually does go through the constellation of Ophiuchus." He adds that the Babylonians probably had totally different constellations anyway.
Somehow, Kunkle's brief comments in the Star-Tribune article got morphed into "astronomer says the zodiac has to be revamped." As various people have pointed out, this means your entire personality is different than what you originally believed it was — you might be flighty instead of hard-working, or fishy instead of scorpionesque. Taylor Swift is an Ophiuchus!
Such is the power that astronomers wield over all our fates.
