Galactic Tick Day
Galactic Tick Day is an awareness and education day that celebrates the movement of the Solar System around the Milky Way galaxy.[1][2][3][4]
Galactic tick


The day occurs on a regular interval of 1.7361 years (or 633.7 days),[5] which is called a Galactic tick. The interval is derived from one centi-arcsecond of a Galactic year, which is the Solar System's roughly 225 million year trip around the galactic center.[6] One Galactic tick is only about .0000077 percent of a full Galactic year.[7]
Glactic Tick Day
The first Galactic Tick Day took place one Galactic tick after Hans Lippershey filed the patent for the telescope on October 2, 1608.[8] The first observance of the holiday was on September 29, 2016, the 235th Galactic Tick Day.[9] The second observance will occur on June 26, 2018.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "You Should Celebrate Galactic Tick Day, the New Holiday That Spans the Milky Way". Popular Mechanics.
- ↑ MacDonald, Fiona. "Happy Galactic Tick Day! You just moved around the Milky Way". sciencealert.com.
- ↑ Schramm, Michael. "What's a galactic tick (and why are we celebrating it today?)". Michigan Radio.
- 1 2 Sedacca, Matthew (2016-09-29). "Today Is "Galactic Tick Day"!". Nautilus (science magazine).
- ↑ "Se acerca el Galactic Tick Day ¿Qué se celebra?". Europa Press (news agency) Ciencia Plus.
- ↑ "'Galactic Tick Day' Celebrates Sun's Trip Around the Galaxy". Space.com.
- ↑ "Strange Science: Earth reaches Galactic Tick Day!". KIAH News Fix.
- ↑ Gray, Frank. "California man hopes to inspire galactic awe". The Journal Gazette.
- ↑ Goldstone, Heather. "Galactic Tick Won't Give You Lyme, But Might Make Your Head Spin". WCAI. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
External links
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- Galactic Tick website
- IFLScience.com article about Galactic Tick Day
- Disquiet Junto Project 0248: Galactic Tick musical compositions on SoundCloud
- GalacticTick on GitHub