At the Florida convention in 2008, the following statement was made by the leader of the Question Meeting: “The earth has been righting itself rather suddenly and dramatically here in the last two years. When I check on that every once and awhile for my own curiosity, in the last two years the Earth has righted itself almost 2 ½ degrees. Quite a shift all of the sudden.”
According to a noted regional astronomer, here are the top three things that would happen if this were true:
- The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere occurs June 20, 2008, when the Sun is in the zenith at the tropic of Cancer. It gives us our longest day and shortest night of the year. This date is important because it is determined by the tilt of the Earth’s axis. Any dramatic straightening of the tilt would cause the solstice to come sooner in the year and noticeably reduce the extra hours of sunlight we receive.
- The orbit of the Moon is inclined by about 5° on the ecliptic, so it appears to wobble (moves higher and lower) in the sky. A change of 2 ½ degrees would alter that thereby affecting the moon’s tidal gravitational force. This, plus the heating index differences due to the solstice change, would cause catastrophic weather changes magnitudes greater than what we see today.
- All astronomers would have to readjust their scopes that are based on calculations using today’s Epoch 2000 coordinate data. All deep-space bodies would be 2 ½ degrees off. In fact, all governments, companies and organizations using satellites or monitoring planetary spacecraft would notice the change. And there can be no conspiracy theory, since there are over 2.7 million registered amateur astronomers in the United States alone. The first community star party given after a shift would cause an uproar in the astronomy community.
The brother who made this statement should offer a correction.
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