{"id":2830,"date":"2011-04-24T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2012-06-08T07:39:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T06:39:07","slug":"early-european-astronomers-determined-easter-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"Early European astronomers determined Easter dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CassiniCalendarStPetronioChappel.jpg\">ESA<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2831\" title=\"CassiniCalendarStPetronioChappel\" src=\"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CassiniCalendarStPetronioChappel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How <em>do<\/em> they know it\u2019s Easter? Ever wondered how the exact dates  of the Easter break are chosen? Easter Sunday can fall anytime between  22 March and 25 April and, thanks to European observations of the Sun  that go back many centuries, the exact date can be predicted as far  ahead as 4099 AD.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEM0GGYGRMG_FeatureWeek_0.html\" target=\"_blank\">read source<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Feaae-astronomy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2830&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Feaae-astronomy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-most-simple-social-bookmarks\/images\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" title=\"Twitter\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Feaae-astronomy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2830&amp;title=Early+European+astronomers+determined+Easter+dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"del.icio.us\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-most-simple-social-bookmarks\/images\/delicious2.png\" alt=\"del.icio.us\" title=\"del.icio.us\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Feaae-astronomy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2830&amp;title=Early+European+astronomers+determined+Easter+dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-most-simple-social-bookmarks\/images\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg\" title=\"Digg\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Feaae-astronomy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2830&amp;t=Early+European+astronomers+determined+Easter+dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-most-simple-social-bookmarks\/images\/facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Facebook\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Feaae-astronomy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2830&amp;title=Early+European+astronomers+determined+Easter+dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"linked-in\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-most-simple-social-bookmarks\/images\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"linked-in\" title=\"linked-in\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.yahoo.com\/submit?submitUrl=Early+European+astronomers+determined+Easter+dates&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Feaae-astronomy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Yahoo Buzz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-most-simple-social-bookmarks\/images\/yahoo.png\" alt=\"Yahoo Buzz\" title=\"Yahoo Buzz\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Feaae-astronomy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2830&amp;title=Early+European+astronomers+determined+Easter+dates&amp;newcomment=Early+European+astronomers+determined+Easter+dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"StumbleUpon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-most-simple-social-bookmarks\/images\/su.png\" alt=\"StumbleUpon\" title=\"StumbleUpon\" \/><\/a>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ESA How do they know it\u2019s Easter? Ever wondered how the exact dates of the Easter break are chosen? Easter Sunday can fall anytime between 22 March and 25 April and, thanks to European observations of the Sun that go back many centuries, the exact date can be predicted as far ahead as 4099 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}