I'm sure it's just a huge coincidence, or perhaps incompetence or fraud. ;')
"I'm sure it's just a huge coincidence, or perhaps incompetence or fraud. ;')"
Dr Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, now there's someone who could tell us...but she died in 1979. (pity, I was hoping she would live long enough to apologise.)
Speaking of coincidence, I ran across this last night whilst browsing through WIC...page 195
'In the second half of the second millenium and in the beginning of the first millenium, Venus was still a comet; and though a comet can have a circular orbit - there is such a comet in the solar system -
(The Schwassmann-Wachmann comet, the orbit of which is between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.)
On the Net: The Venus Tablets.
http://www.kronia.com/library/journals/ventablt.txt