User contributions for Eric Kvaalen
A user with 10,058 edits. Account created on 24 October 2004.
5 May 2024
- 14:0414:04, 5 May 2024 diff hist −10 469219 Kamoʻoalewa Most such things hit the earth eventually. Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 09:0009:00, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1,116 469219 Kamoʻoalewa It doesn't circle the earth except in a rotating frame of reference. It is sometimes in a horseshoe orbit. It will probably hit the earth. I don't see why it should be in italics, by the way.
28 April 2024
- 08:0208:02, 28 April 2024 diff hist +440 Eclipse cycle Heptons tend to preserve eclipse type. More on cycle of moon size, and correction of date.
26 April 2024
- 17:4817:48, 26 April 2024 diff hist +4 Sakha Link to Federal subject of Russia Tag: Reverted
- 14:3214:32, 26 April 2024 diff hist +20 Venice Correction of punctuation and a subtitle. Roman names of towns.
25 April 2024
- 06:3306:33, 25 April 2024 diff hist 0 m MGM-140 ATACMS Pronounced əˈtækəmz
24 April 2024
- 08:4308:43, 24 April 2024 diff hist −11 Arthur Thomas Doodson Links to Doodson numbers current
21 April 2024
- 12:5512:55, 21 April 2024 diff hist +5,530 Eclipse cycle Made several corrections, added anomalistic years to table, added material on intervals and long-term trends. I don't agree that we should capitalize "the moon" etc.
20 April 2024
- 17:5317:53, 20 April 2024 diff hist +160 Cementum Moved images and added one, and tried to improve the English. current
- 08:0308:03, 20 April 2024 diff hist +379 Talk:99942 Apophis It's not research. current
16 April 2024
- 08:3408:34, 16 April 2024 diff hist +18 Electric battery Added anchor for "C rate". current
- 08:2808:28, 16 April 2024 diff hist +287 Battery charger →C-rate: Corrected false information about temperature.
13 April 2024
- 15:3015:30, 13 April 2024 diff hist −81 Phosphoric acids and phosphates Added subsection on metaphosphoric acid. current
- 14:3114:31, 13 April 2024 diff hist +67 N Trimetaphosphate Redirect to Phosphoric acids and phosphates current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
11 April 2024
- 17:1717:17, 11 April 2024 diff hist +2,106 Talk:Solar eclipse Templates not appropriate
- 15:1015:10, 11 April 2024 diff hist +1,268 Solar eclipse So change the template! Don't get rid of everything I wrote! Tags: Manual revert Reverted
- 12:4012:40, 11 April 2024 diff hist +1,268 Solar eclipse You're welcome to improve what I did, but don't delete the whole thing. The article as it was was unacceptable because it says over and over "This eclipse is a member..." Tags: Manual revert Reverted
- 12:3312:33, 11 April 2024 diff hist +1,268 Solar eclipse Explanation of templates and maps Tag: Reverted
10 April 2024
- 12:0612:06, 10 April 2024 diff hist +9 Template:Sfrac/doc "common or mixed fractions" current
7 April 2024
- 20:1020:10, 7 April 2024 diff hist +572 Eclipse cycle Number of days in table is on average. More explanation of waviness, due to sun's motion in the sky.
- 14:2514:25, 7 April 2024 diff hist −22 Coenzyme Q10 →Dietary supplement: Improved the English.
6 April 2024
- 20:1020:10, 6 April 2024 diff hist +378 Jenin Restored text which was cut in the middle of a sentence. current
- 13:1513:15, 6 April 2024 diff hist +12,482 Eclipse cycle Made some more corrections and clarifications. Added a graph and discussion of how properties vary in the "Panorama". Oscillations in size of moon and sun at eclipse.
5 April 2024
- 19:3219:32, 5 April 2024 diff hist +408 Talk:Sidereal time Can you put back something instead of what you deleted?
- 10:2410:24, 5 April 2024 diff hist +217 Talk:Sidereal time What time of day on January 1, AD 2000, is tU equal to zero?
- 10:1310:13, 5 April 2024 diff hist +170 Sidereal time ERA of 100° 37′ 12.4365″ at 0 h 1 January 2017 UT1 can be used as an anchor to give the ERA approximately for a given civil time and date. current
30 March 2024
- 13:5913:59, 30 March 2024 diff hist +18 Eclipse cycle Fix'd some mistakes in the table. Switched to Julian years because that makes it easier to calculate dates inside the range 1901-2099 and any time before 1582.
- 11:3811:38, 30 March 2024 diff hist +1,382 Hipparchic cycle Comparison of the interval of Hipparchus with others. Tag: Disambiguation links added
29 March 2024
- 19:2619:26, 29 March 2024 diff hist +8 m Α-Linolenic acid Link to linoleic acid
28 March 2024
- 20:3620:36, 28 March 2024 diff hist +54 Cryopreservation →Worms: They were more at least 30,000 years old.
- 09:5609:56, 28 March 2024 diff hist +2 Hipparchic cycle There are three cycles if one counts the calendar cycle and the two eclipse cycles.
- 09:5409:54, 28 March 2024 diff hist +5,740 Hipparchic cycle Added quotes from the Almagest. Length of month according to the 345-year cycle. Relation of anomalistic and synodic months. Added paragraph on his 441-year cycle.
26 March 2024
- 09:5509:55, 26 March 2024 diff hist +1,223 Mean longitude Sometimes the value defined in this way is called the "mean mean longitude", and may be model'd with a Maclaurin series. current
25 March 2024
- 17:3517:35, 25 March 2024 diff hist −16 Equation of the center Corrected spelling of "prosthaphaeresis". current
- 17:3117:31, 25 March 2024 diff hist +319 Prosthaphaeresis Gave a correct etymology. The word had a different meaning in antiquity. "Ibn" is part of the last name of Ibn Yunis.
- 17:1517:15, 25 March 2024 diff hist +30 N Prosthaphæresis Redirect to prosthaphaeresis current Tag: New redirect
24 March 2024
- 11:2411:24, 24 March 2024 diff hist 0 Lunar standstill Widen'd graph after a correction made it have a larger range
- 11:0011:00, 24 March 2024 diff hist +472 Epsilon Geminorum More on ancient lion, and links to readable text. current
22 March 2024
- 11:0211:02, 22 March 2024 diff hist +300 Names of the days of the week →Greco-Roman tradition: Reference to Dio Cassius for old Greek names
- 10:2910:29, 22 March 2024 diff hist +1,255 Week Reverted anonymous edit -- already discussed in article. Removed sentence sayin' the week goes back to Babylonians. References to Schürer and Dio Cassius. Tag: Disambiguation links added
20 March 2024
- 10:2110:21, 20 March 2024 diff hist −176 Week The Babylonians named the days of the week after the seven moving luminaries (the five planets, the sun, and the moon), according to Encyclopædia Britannica.
18 March 2024
- 19:3419:34, 18 March 2024 diff hist +66 Lunar day For the tidal lunar day of about 24 hours and 50 minutes, see Tide. current
17 March 2024
- 17:4617:46, 17 March 2024 diff hist −1,179 Eclipse cycle The Utting cycle doesn't arise in the continued fraction unless the ratio is slightly different. Corrected Metonic and Callippic cycles. Got rid of thix, which doesn't seem to have anything special about it. Modified some of the descriptions to make them shorter or to explain what's special about them. There's no point giving years plus a number of days when the type of year is ambiguous. I can defend any of these on the talk page.
16 March 2024
- 10:3710:37, 16 March 2024 diff hist +723 Neanderthal genetics →Interbreeding with anatomically modern humans: Amount of Neanderthal genome still present among us
- 10:3110:31, 16 March 2024 diff hist +747 Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans →Introgressed genome: More recent figures
12 March 2024
- 19:2519:25, 12 March 2024 diff hist −1 m Hipparchic cycle →Eclipse cycle: Line feed
10 March 2024
- 10:1010:10, 10 March 2024 diff hist +39 Kidinnu Link to Babylonian astronomy for System B current
- 06:4406:44, 10 March 2024 diff hist +759 Lunar standstill →Apparent position of the Moon during standstill: Highest lunar altitude occurs at half moon when the sun is on the horizon.
9 March 2024
- 09:2709:27, 9 March 2024 diff hist +2,874 Lunar standstill Added two graphs.Moved some sentences. Took out some dates that were incorrect or unreferenced. Relation to eclipses and equinoxes. Other corrections.
7 March 2024
- 11:1811:18, 7 March 2024 diff hist −4 Mithridates Removed spurious word. current
