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=Tracking Cosmological Events=

-Winter Solstice (image acquired from http://averyhenderson.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/winter_solstice_pivato.jpg)

Ancient civilizations did not have the technology of today, yet they were able to make very accurate measurements of the path of the Sun. An important event in the study of the sun is the winter and summer solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs near June 21 and the winter solstice occurs around December 21. The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and the winter solstice marks the shortest.

See the following link for a description of the two solstice and the equinox.

@http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4866

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