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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of November 26, 2015

From the dawn of civilization until 1995, humans cataloged about 900 comets in our solar system. But since then, we have expanded that tally by over 3,000. Most of the recent discoveries have been made not by professional astronomers, but by laypersons, including two 13-year-olds. They have used the Internet to access images from the SOHO satellite placed in orbit by NASA and the European Space Agency. After analyzing the astrological omens, I expect you Sagittarians to enjoy a similar run of amateur success. So trust your rookie instincts. Feed your innocent curiosity. Ride your raw enthusiasm.

I don't so much need to see what's "new" but find what's "lost".

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of November 13, 2014

Ancient people knew about Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn because all of those planets are visible to the naked eye. From the second millennium B.C. until the late 20th century, only three additional planets were found: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (Pluto was later reclassified as a dwarf planet, however.) Then in 1992, astronomers began to locate planets orbiting other stars. On one spectacular day in February of 2014, NASA announced it had identified 715 new planets. I foresee a similar uptick for you in the next seven months, Sagittarius. Your rate of discoveries is about to zoom.

Have we run out of names for gods?

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Dr. Scribbles is working on a device to move the planets of the Solar system to new orbits. To prove it, he'll set Mercury so its new orbit perpetually eclipses the Institute and puts all those fools "where the sun don't shine".

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Been HERE, Thought That.

(Wrote this in a forum last year. Not specifically my idea, but just exploring it.)

Some people in their signatures say that they don't want to play God, just borrow his SMITE button.

Forget that, I want to borrow his PULL FIRMAMENT FROM VOID button.

How about this:

1) Boost Venus from its current orbit (3/4 AU) up to Earth's belt level...maybe a good distance ahead or behind Terra/Luna in the same track. For an encore I'd boost Mercury up as well and make that Venus' moon.

2) Take Mars (along with both Deimos and Phobos) and drop them into the Terran orbit track as well.

3) Loot the bigger moons from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and slip them into comfortable orbits, also along the Terran orbit track.

Between the dozen or so planetary and satellite bodies given, we could expand the elbow room for Homo Sapiens and Company at least three or four times, maybe more, depending on how many moons get looted from the Gas Giants. Of course, the Solar Systemic juggling act would take levels of energy far beyond anything possible with current technology. But if you're going to get the power of a God, it is surely better to rearrange than to burn. :)

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And I want to mention two things: 1)Twenty years ago this month, I started my first terms at college. 2)A few years ago, I predicted that the world as we knew it would end this month. Earth would be turned into a burnt-out desert world so that eleven others would support Terrestrial life. Of course, this prediction has a possibility rating of less than 1%.

FP

Hey.

I'd been wanting to blog about this subject since the news broke, but hadn't really given myself the chance. Anyway, it's been discovered, but not officially named. Anybody else speculating?

We're running out of Romanized Olympian deities, aren't we? Ceres, Vesta and Minerva (as Pallas) have all been honored with large asteroids. I thought Juno was also an asteroid, but don't have proof. Which leaves Hebe, Cupid, Bacchus, Pan and two more...

At first glance, Vulcan would probably be at the top of the list, because of the high prevalence of Trekkers in the science community. But if I were one of them, I'd wait on naming a planet Vulcan till we find a habitable planet IN ANOTHER STAR SYSTEM. Which leaves the name I'm leaning toward...

Prosperina. As the wife of Pluto, she's a natural. Besides, what would it do for the art of Astrology?

Speaking of which, the planet would also need a graphical symbol as the others do already. Anybody know if the gods themselves already had symbols assigned by the ancients?

BTW, another ponderable: since the days of the week originally honored sun, moon and the five naked-eye visible planets (Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Saturn), just think--if we have continued naming days after planets as we discovered them, we'd have twelve-day weeks by now! And only forty weeks in a year! Perhaps Pope Benedict will jump at the chance of immortality by establishing a new calendar...he has the authority to do that!

FP

PS: http://www.rednova.com/news/space/236584/odd_additions_to_our_solar_system/
There are actually three newly found planetoids in the Solar System. "Easterbunny" could be Pan or Cupid and "Santa" could be Bacchus.

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