← Back to letters29/04/18 average synodic period between two passages of NAWEE in superior conjunction on the same vertical axis passing through the center of the IOUMMA disk. NAWEE is a celestial body that you describe as a "gas giant" whose size is about half that of your planet Saturn. NAWEE orbits IOUMMA on a closer orbit than that of OUMMO. It is clearly visible in our sky at the times of IOUMMA's rising and setting. Its atmosphere, extremely hot, is animated by strong convective currents and is constantly agitated by violent storms that cause incessant scintillations and give it its own luminosity, complementary to the reflected light of IOUMMA. Its apparent movement has been observed since antiquity, with NAWEE being at the center of prehistoric cults and primitive legends that can still be deciphered today on the megalithic steles engraved at the beginnings of the use of writing. Characteristics of NAWEE 6.22.107 Equatorial radius: m 9.91.1025 Mass: kg 5.97.1010 Average distance to IOUMMA: m Orbital eccentricity: 0.026 Inclination of the orbit relative to 1.53° OUMMO: During six orbital cycles of OUMMO, seven superior synodic conjunctions of NAWEE are observable. Our ancient astronomers based themselves on the apparent path of this celestial body relative to IOUMMA to define a calendar. However, due to the orbital eccentricities of NAWEE and OUMMO, the time separating two conjunctions is not constant. One must wait eighteen XEE - a XEEOUMMO - to observe a complete astronomical cycle between NAWEE and OUMMO. The XEE was thus defined as the eighteenth part of this apparent cycle which precisely equals 1079.979 rotation periods of OUMMO (1391.22 Earth days). The value of the XEE was deliberately set to exactly 60 old XI. Although the value of the XI was later readjusted, the definition of the XEE remains identical. A XEE therefore equals 36,000 OUIW (111,316.36 minutes or 77.303 Earth days). The sidereal revolution period of OUMMO, which equals about 229.5 Earth days, is very significantly less than three XEE. The approximations made on the values of the XI and the XEE lead, as with you, to a shift relative to astronomical references. The approximation on the value of the XI logically implies a progressive shift in the timing of our solar star's rising at a given fixed point on the equator of OUMMO. When the OUIW was introduced during the scientific rise experienced by our people during its second historical era, the official value of the XI was redefined and an attempt at calendar readjustment took place to give it better correlation with astronomical reality. An OUIW was added to the time computation every 84 XI, except once every 84 XEE. This method was quickly abandoned as it was deemed unnecessarily complex by the people. We do not have, on OUMMO, the imperative of a precise calendar calculation to know when to sow our crops based on upcoming climatic conditions. Climatic conditions are entirely dependent on latitude, and in no way on the physical positioning of OUMMO on its orbital path. As an anecdote, we can tell you that the chronicles reporting the creation of our calendar, in the year 0 of our first era, indicate that a quarrel took place opposing the astronomers, followers of a cult based on sacred mathematics, and the theologians of the NAWEE cult during the establishment of the XEE. The latter, extremely rigorous, did not accept the approximation made by the royal astronomers for theological reasons around the constant π, then associated with the purest expression of divinity. They declared that the humanity of OUMMO would perish when the discrepancy between the true period 1220 / 1373
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