Brooms Stand Up Equinox

Spring equinox irrelevant.

Brooms stand up equinox.

It has nothing to do with earth s gravitational pull on a certain day. Straight angled synthetic and corn brooms all seem to be held into place on the big day affected by unknown forces upon the earth. For one thing the spring equinox which occurs every year in late march has nothing to do with brooms standing on end. On february 10 2020 memes and posts about a broomchallenge began circulating around facebook claiming that an arcane gravitational anomaly usually chalked up to being caused by a planetary alignment or the vernal equinox enabled people to stand brooms on end without tipping over.

Second this is a good opportunity to explain the equinox. Social media the day of the spring equinox is often ablaze with images of people balancing their brooms. Nasa didn t say that a broom would stand up on a certain date but many people fell for it. All sorts of people and brooms got in on the fun.

A special property of the equinox allows eggs or brooms to be balanced on their ends that day. This isn t the first time claims have spread online that nasa said brooms can stand up on their own on the spring or vernal equinox. For example mercury venus mars jupiter and saturn aligned most recently in 2016 but astronomers say such events have negligible effects on earthly. Neither do other planetary alignments.

People stand up brooms on the day of the spring equinox. Ground and watching in amazement as the eggs stand on end. The spring equinox is the moment when the sun crosses the equator on its way north signaling the end of winter in the northern hemisphere and the start of it in the southern hemisphere. It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox another day of the year when this magic supposedly happens.

At the end of the day it was harmless. Yes the broom stands up because of gravity but yesterday s gravity wasn t special or different. Popped up as a subject discussed.