https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=141.101.105.168 2026-06-26T21:26:52Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1878:_Earth_Orbital_Diagram&diff=144250 2017-08-18T19:23:16Z

<p>141.101.105.168: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> I guess first off, we should note the &quot;solstice&quot; is *not* the Bristish equivalent of &quot;equinox&quot; -- they are actually opposites. The equinoxes occur in April and September, when the day &amp; night are equal length, and the solstices occur in June and December, when the length of daylight and nightime, respectively, are at their longest. [[User:JamesCurran|JamesCurran]] ([[User talk:JamesCurran|talk]]) 15:30, 18 August 2017 (UTC)<br /> <br /> &quot;Determinant of the date of Easter&quot; refers to the fact that in the Catholic Church (and possibly other Christian denomiations) the date of Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon of Spring, which means it is an astronomical calculation, but completely unrelated to the indicated angle. [[User:JamesCurran|JamesCurran]] ([[User talk:JamesCurran|talk]]) 16:28, 18 August 2017 (UTC)<br /> <br /> &quot;Astral planes&quot; might as well be a Unicode reference, taking into account Randall's occasional mention of emoji, since emoji reside on one of the astral planes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_%28Unicode%29</div>

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