Category Archives: earth

Hail is a form of precipitation that falls from the sky as pellets of ice. The pellets can range in size from small pea-sized pellets to hailstones as large as grapefruits (more on hail size below). The formation of hail … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop:
Kepler’s trigon – the orientation of consecutive Jupiter-Saturn synodic periods, showing the repeating triangular shape (trigon). This of course follows on from the very recent Part 1 of the model. Since Jupiter and Saturn…

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop:
Earth’s Axial Tilt, or Obliquity [Credit: Wikipedia] First let’s get the approximate target numbers for the model. ‘The inclination of Earth’s orbit varies with respect to the solar system’s invariant plane with a period…