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What do you mean by the astronomical calendar?

Here's a chart I made of every great conjunction from the one in 2020 to the year 2200. All but once do they take place in an air sign.

The addition of asteroids gives a balanced sex ratio to the gods. Here is a list of the Olympian gods paired with their spouses (or lovers) according to the lectisternium of the Twelve Great gods in 217 BC by the Augustan historian Livy. Jupiter–Juno Neptune–Minerva Mars–Venus Phoebus–Diana Vulcan–V...

For most of history there were only seven planets in the zodiac. Five of them appear twice; on the solar side for day rulerships and on the lunar for night. https://i.imgur.com/YDPfVGK.png With the discovery of Uranus and Neptune this redundancy was reduced somewhat. https://i.imgur.com/5Gs32QV.png ...

I'll bet that not only did Captain Cook know about the transit of Venus, being that it was the ostensible reason for his mission, but that Venus would eclipse something else besides the Sun. One planet transiting or occulting another is a very rare event. The last time that has happened the year was...

'Snow White' is going to have a some close shaves in a few years. Here's what Stellarium shows.

I almost forgot to mention that not only is the 250th anniversary of Cook's discovery approaching, but the 500th of the start Magellan's voyage in September 2019!

I would think that its being opposite Aries is right. As a side note, yet another spacecraft to visit Venus was called Pioneer 12 or Pioneer Venus 1. Hmmmm. Pioneer_Venus_orbiter.jpg There are other ones as well. Henry Morton Stanley was the most famous explorer in the nineteenth century. He was not...

The transits of Venus are very rare, coming in pairs every 120 years or so. I bring this up because it has recently been the 250th anniversary of the most famous one of all. Have you ever noticed that there is a correlation between the transits and great events in exploration? vts_1518_geo.gif Magel...

Here's an image of the major plutoids so you can get an idea of the significance of this.

'Snow White' is now the largest unnamed object in the Solar System. The next closest, 2002MS4, is much smaller. There probably won't be another of this size found that will be anywhere nearby; Planet Nine, when found, will be much larger but so far away that it's almost undetectable.