Hi Al, Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy adressed this very issue yesterday.
Here is his take: http://tinyurl.com/yet3axh (Bottom line-we are in a new decade because we don't measure decades the same way we measure centuries). Happy New Year regardless of the decade! Best regards, Charley "Well, squids don't work. Hey! Let's try elephants !" Hannibal > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:37:25 -0500 > From: almi...@localnet.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The New Decade Off Topic > To: Meteorite Central <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> > Message-ID: <20100101183725.7u8v5xbiadwsw...@webmail.localnet.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format="flowed" > > Greetings, > > I keep hearing and seeing different places about this being the new > decade. They kept saying it last night in the news media. It isn't! The > new decade will begin next January 1st 2011. Just as people made > mistakes about the new millinaium about nine years ago. > > Unless the calander started in the year 0 then we are actually > finishing out the current decade. I know there is some debate about all > this but I'm going with this being the beginning of tenth year of the > first decade in 30th century. > > http://www.millenniummistake.net/frame2.htm > > Well enough non-sense, all my best to everyone and Happy New Year to all! > > --AL Mitterling > Mitterling Meteorites ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
