{"id":38643,"date":"2013-09-05T14:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/the-cosmic-spirograph.html"},"modified":"2013-09-05T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:59:50","slug":"the-cosmic-spirograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/the-cosmic-spirograph.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cosmic Spirograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">The Sun, Earth, and Venus, doing their cosmic dance. \u00a0Cool. \u00a0(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117056074198729428330'>Our Incredible Universe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Venus orbits the Sun 13 times for every 8 Earth orbits.<br \/>If you track the relative positions of Earth and Venus over an 8 year period, this is the resulting pattern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-KA8mIltmB74\/UijAqQ-2pZI\/AAAAAAAAEOE\/p0YAiV5WHc8\/uni.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/VoMKudD1mkr' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun, Earth, and Venus, doing their cosmic dance. \u00a0Cool. \u00a0(h\/t +Les Jenkins) Reshared post from +Our Incredible Universe Venus orbits the Sun 13 times for every 8 Earth orbits.If you track the relative positions of Earth and Venus over an 8 year period, this is the resulting pattern. 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