A Calendar Variant for Pluto

b. Pluto: 5,906,380,000 km (39.482 AU) 1 Jeremiahn Variants
Distance from the Sun
Perihelion 4,436,820,000 km
Aphelion 7,375,930,000 km
Mean distance 5,906,380,000 km (39.482 AU)
Year length 247.68 E-y
Orbital eccentricity 0.2488
Orbital inclination 17.16°
Solar day 6 E-d 9 h 32' 2.992" (retrograde)
Sidereal day 6 E-d 9 h 18' (retrograde)
Rotational inclination 122.53°
Mass 13,000,000,000,000,000,000 t
Mean radius 1,151 km
Mean density 2 g/cm3
Moons 3
Average surface temperature -222.78 °C
October 21, +2009 E 12:05 PM
October 4, +2009 E 6:25 PM
June A 21, +8:01 P 11h50'35.716"
June A 4, +8:01 P 18h03'02.712"
A Calendar Variant for Pluto

Pluto is the furthest (dwarf) planet from the sun[1]. It is in the Kuiper Belt, a belt of comets beyond to orbit of Neptune. Pluto sometimes at a particular point in its orbit will come in-front of Neptune. Because of its distance from the Sun Pluto is very cold. In-fact the Sun is hard to tell from the other stars in Pluto’s night sky, unless you know what you are looking for. But Pluto would still be a good vacation spot. Though it might not be a good place for a colony, that does not mean we should not put one there. Pluto has a retrograde rotation. A Pluto year is 247.68 E-y and a Pluto-sol is 6.39726 E-d. Pluto has an average surface -222.778°C. Pluto has three moons: Charon, Nix, and Hydra. Pluto has thin nitrogen atmosphere, there is ice on it too. Terraforming would difficult for Pluto, but not impossible. Pluto is a great vacation spot. I would argue that because of Pluto and Charon’s unique relationship they are a “double-planet.”
I am doing this for fun. This is my Jeremiahn Variant Calendar Seven for Pluto. This is just a calendar made for pure fun. A Pluto-sol is 6.39726 E-d (6 E-d 9 h 32' 2.992"), so I will divide the Pluto-sol six ways for convenience: giving us a hexethsol. A hexethsol is 25.589 h (25 h 35' 20.544"). The “hexethsol” is the base unit[2]. This is 1 h 35' 20.544" longer than a day. Now I will take the Pluto year, 247.68 E-y, and put it into sols and divide it by 33 you get 2,667.964 M-d or 2,741.311 E-d. You take that number put it in hours and divide it by the hexethsol you get 2,571.084 P-xd (2,571 P-xd 2 h 8' 40.429"). The Pluto year is divided into 33 segments of this length. The Pluto year and segment are written together like this {P-y:segment}, do this for calendar year and measuring other things such as people’s age. The clock for this calendar uses our hours, minutes, and seconds. We will count 25 h 35' 20.544" before ticking to the next hexethsol. This clock does use a millisecond counter[3]. Each segment has 72 months; span 35-36 P-xd each. This calendar does start with one on its Pluto year count. A 2,571 P-xd regular segment and a 2,572 P-xd irregular segment[4]. A common Pluto year has 33 regular segments and a leap Pluto year has 32 regular segments and one irregular segment. Pluto is 5,906,380,000 km (39.482 AU) from the Sun, which gives it a longer year.
Pluto, named for the Roman god of the underworld, is the second largest known KBO (Kuiper Belt Object) in the Solar System. It was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, and was classified as a planet until 2006 when the International Astronomical Union changed its designation to dwarf planet. The New Horizons spacecraft was launched on a voyage to Pluto and beyond in 2006; the spacecraft will make its closest approach to Pluto in July of 2015.
Because no probes have visited Pluto, it is difficult for astronomers to accurately take readings of the planet’s atmospheric composition. It is believed that an atmosphere of methane, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide exists when the planet is closer to the Sun. When Pluto is farther away from the Sun during its orbit, the atmosphere freezes and becomes part of its surface. Large regions on Pluto are dark, others light; Pluto has spots and perhaps polar caps. There is also evidence of temperature fluctuations on the planet that may indicate primitive weather. Its core may be rocky with a mantle of water ice surrounding it.
The 33 Segments in my Pluto year are:
#. segments spans #. segments spans
name months P-xd name months P-xd
1. Alpha 72 2571-2572 18. Antlia 72 2571
2. Beta 72 2571 19. Aquila 72 2571
3. Draco 72 2571 20. Grus 72 2571
4. Lynx 72 2571 21. Lyra 72 2571
5. Hercules 72 2571 22. Norma 72 2571
6. Serpentarius 72 2571 23. Microscopium 72 2571
7. Phoenix 72 2571 24. Monoceros 72 2571
8. Pegasus 72 2571 25. Musca 72 2571
9. Perseus 72 2571 26. Orion 72 2571
10. Lepus 72 2571 27. Sextans 72 2571
11. Octans 72 2571 28. Volans 72 2571
12. Crater 72 2571 29. Serpens 72 2571
13. Hydrus 72 2571 30. Scutum 72 2571
14. Fornax 72 2571 31. Pyxis 72 2571
15. Cygnus 72 2571 32. Sagitta 72 2571
16. Eridanus 72 2571 33. Omega 72 2571
17. Andromeda 72 2571
Pluto has three natural satellites. Charon, the biggest, has a diameter 1185.83 km—about half of Pluto’s diameter of 2389.37 km. No other planet of any kind has a moon so close to its size. Discovered in 1978, Charon orbits Pluto at a distance of 19629.8 km and takes 6.39 E-d to move around the planet. In the same length of time, Pluto and Charon both rotate once around their axes, meaning that a person standing on Pluto would always see the same face of Charon in the same part of the sky, every day and night. The Pluto-Charon system thus appears to rotate as virtually a rigid body. Both worlds are roughly spherical and comparable densities. Because of these similarities and their peculiar relationship, there is a debate as to whether Charon should one day be designated a dwarf planet.
The two other moons were discovered in 2005 and in 2006 were officially named Nix and Hydra.
The 72 months in each Segment in my Plutonian year are:
#. months spans #. months spans #. months spans
1. January A 35 25. January B 36 49. January C 36
2. Terra A 35 26. Terra B 36 50. Terra C 36
3. Pisces A 35 27. Pisces B 36 51. Pisces C 36
4. February A 35-36 28. February B 36 52. February C 36
5. Aries A 35 29. Aries B 36 53. Aries C 36
6. April A 35 30. April B 36 54. April C 36
7. Taurus A 35 31. Taurus B 36 55. Taurus C 36
8. Gemini A 35 32. Gemini B 36 56. Gemini C 36
9. May A 35 33. May B 36 57. May C 36
10. June A 35 34. June B 36 58. June C 36
11. Cancer A 35 35. Cancer B 36 59. Cancer C 36
12. July A 35 36. July B 36 60. July C 36
13. Leo A 35 37. Leo B 36 61. Leo C 36
14. Virgo A 35 38. Virgo B 36 62. Virgo C 36
15. Libra A 35 39. Libra B 36 63. Libra C 36
16. August A 35 40. August B 36 64. August C 36
17. Scorpio A 35 41. Scorpio B 36 65. Scorpio C 36
18. September A 35 42. September B 36 66. September C 36
19. Sagittarius A 35 43. Sagittarius B 36 67. Sagittarius C 36
20. October A 35 44. October B 36 68. October C 36
21. Capricorn A 35 45. Capricorn B 36 69. Capricorn C 36
22. November A 36 46. November B 36 70. November C 36
23. Aquarius A 36 47. Aquarius B 36 71. Aquarius C 36
24. December A 36 48. December B 36 72. December C 36
Now I will calculate the calendar’s leap Pluto year[5]. Its leap Pluto year will fall: every two Pluto years, omitted every 100 P-y, centurial one every 200 P-y. The leap bisol is February A 36 in Alpha. This calendar has an accuracy of 4,677,789 P-y, its Ls is the anti-meridian. To remember the lengths of the months say: “January A through Pisces A have 35 P-xd, February A has 35-36 P-xd, Aries A through Capricorn A have 35 P-xd, and all the rest have 36 P-xd,” and to remember the order refer back to my Jeremiahn Calendar for Mars and add a B and a C section. Eventually if the colony ever got big enough we would need to develop Plutonian time zones as well. I would do this similar to the Earth’s time zones; which is add or subtract an hour every 15° E/W of the Prime Meridian, respectively. Pluto and its moons already have Equators and Prime Meridians. Someone else will name these time zones[6]. On Pluto the GMT equivalent is Cero Mean Time. Cero refers to being 0º E/W of Pluto’s Prime Meridian. When measuring from the Pluto’s Origin Point (0º E/W, 0º N/S) going clockwise there is 293.345 km between each time zone. Any lunar colonies will use this same calendar, but I will try to develop time zones for the Pluto moons. So someone else will set up the Plutonian lunar time zones, but the Jeremiahn Variant Calendar Seven will be used on these Plutonian lunar colonies. Charon time zones will go like this 148.062 km between each when measuring clockwise from its Origin Point. Nix and Hydra have an average circumference of 172.788 km, so time zones are 6.752 km apart measuring clockwise from their Origin Points. This calendar is to have a seven-hexethsol week-cycle, so that it is liked by the religious groups. This is acceptable to religious group, making religion on Pluto easy.
The seven hexethsols in my Plutonian week are:
7 P-xd name meaning
1 Sunhexethsol Sunday (weekend)
2 Mondehexethsol Charon’s +Hydra’s + Nix’s day
3 Tueshexethsol Tuesday
4 Wedneshexethsol Wednesday
5 Thurshexethsol Thursday
6 Frihexethsol Friday
7 Saturhexethsol Saturday (weekend).
This calendar’s epoch is Jesus Christ’s birth. The JD count is 1,721,419[7]. The epoch formula for Pluto is: ((y*365.2425*24)/25.589)/84845.766; y = current Earth year, round to nearest whole number. This would make the current Pluto year be +8:01 P or +8 in Alpha P. +8:01 P or +8 in Alpha P started on January 1, +2009 E and will end on July 3, +2016 E; July 4, +2016 E will start +8:02 P or +8 in Beta P. This calendar begins on January A 1 in each segment. The Pluto year starts with January A 1 in Alpha. This is a non-perpetual calendar for Pluto. Pluto has no seasons therefore there is no need to track them[8]. The holibisols are as follows: April A 22 in Beta is Pluto Hexethsol, December A 10 in Beta is Exploration Hexethsol, and Foundation Hexethsol is the Hexethsol that the first colony was established on Pluto. NASA currently does not use an independent calendar for timekeeping on Pluto[9]. The age equivalencies are start school at zero segments and 45 months, drive at two segments and nine months, vote at and end school at two segments and 29 months, get drunk at two segments and 57 months, and retire at eight segments and 48 months. The length of a workhexethsol is 8 h 31' 46.8". This is simple.
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There are none this calendar is just for fun!!!! Pluto’s color is dark yellow. The life span of a human is: 15 segments and 71 months. Our fix year is 8:03 P, so 8:04 P will start on May 17, 2011 E, and will end on November 18, 2018 E.
Pluto
sol 6.39726 E-d
1/6 sols
hexethsols 25 h 35' 20.544"
clock 12 h 47' 40.272" face
year 247.68 E-y
33 segments 1 segment = 2667.964 M-d
2741.311 E-d
2571.084 P-xd
72 months
regular = 2571 P-xd
irregular = 2572 P-xd
common year 33 regular segments
leap year 32 regular segments, 1 irregular segment
placement February A 36 in Alpha
formula +2 P-y; -100 P-y, +200 P-y
distance 39.482 AU
moons 3
week 7 P-xd
accuracy 4,677,789 P-y
GMT Cero Mean Time
covers 293.345 km each
epoch 12/25/+0000 E 1,721,419
+8:01 P start January 1, +2009 E
end July 3, +2016 E
seasons N/A
to our knowledge
ages start school at 0 segments and 45 months
drive at 2 segments and 9 months
vote at 2 segments and 29 months
drink alcohol at 2 segments and 57 months
retire at 8 segments and 48 months
work 8 h 31' 46.8"
competitors N/A
independence no

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A Calendar Variant for Neptune

8. Neptune: 4,498,252,900 km (30.069 AU) 1 Jeremiahn Variants
Distance from the Sun
Perihelion 4,459,630,000 km
Aphelion 4,536,870,000 km
Mean distance 4,498,252,900 km (30.069 AU)
Year length 164.79 E-y
Orbital eccentricity 0.0113
Orbital inclination 1.769°
Solar day 16 h 6' 37"
Sidereal day 16 h 6' 36"
Rotational inclination 28.32°
Mass 102,440,000,000,000,000,000,000 t
Mean radius 24,764 km
Mean density 1.76 g/cm3
Moons 13
Average surface temperature* -201.11 °C
* i.e., temperature where atmosphere pressure equals one Earth atmosphere.
October 21, +2009 E 12:02 PM
September 29, +2009 E 3:00 PM
June A 21, +12:01 N 00h22'09.859"
June A 1, +12:01 N 14h50'21.637"
A Calendar Variant for Neptune

This is Jeremiahn Variant Calendar Six for Neptune[1]. I see no reasons why each moon of Neptune should have its own calendar. It seems much more reasonable to design the calendar for Neptune not its moons[2]. If we had a colony on Earth’s moon you would use the Gregorian or Earth calendar for daily planning, not a calendar based on the Moon like the Chinese. They are some very surprising facts about Neptune when trying to make a calendar for its moons. NASA recognizes this as Neptune’s official rotation: 16.1103 h (16 h 6' 37"), so the length I will use is that times two: 32.2206 h (32 h 13' 14"). This is a “bisol.” The “bisol” is the base unit[3]. The bisol is 10 h 28' 45.84" longer than a day. Two is if you take the orbit of Neptune, 164.79 E-y, and put it in sols and divide that by 33 you get 1775.09 M-d or 1823.89 E-d. You take that number and put it in hours and divide that by the bisol you get 1358.55 N-ld (1358 N-ld 17 h 43' 16.788"). The Neptune year is divided into 33 segments of this length. The Neptune year and segment are written together like this {N-y:segment}, do this for calendar year and measuring other things such as people’s age[4]. The clock for this calendar uses our hours, minutes, and seconds. We will count 32 h 13' 14" before ticking to the next bisol. This clock does use a millisecond counter. It is good to preserve our hours, minutes, and seconds; because not doing so would make measuring time way too confusing. Each segment has 48 months; span 28-29 N-ld each. This calendar does start with one on its Neptune year count. A 1358 N-ld regular segment and a 1359 N-ld irregular segment. A common Neptune year has 33 regular segments and a leap Neptune year has 32 regular segments and one irregular segment. Neptune is 4,498,252,900 km (30.069 AU) from the Sun, which gives it a longer year.

Named for the Roman god of the sea, Neptune was the first planet discovered through mathematical calculations and not observation. Its approximate orbit and position was first calculated independently by John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier in 1845. In 1846, Johann Galle first observed Neptune through a telescope.
The Neptunian atmosphere is composed primarily of 80 percent hydrogen, 19 percent helium, and small amounts of hydrogen deuteride, ethane, ammonia ice, water ice, ammonia hydrosulfide, and methane ice. Neptune’s atmosphere is quite blue, with quickly changing white clouds often suspended high above an apparent surface. A Great Dark Spot was discovered in 1989 when Voyager 2 visited the planet, reminiscent of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope have shown the Great Dark Spot originally seen by Voyager has apparently dissipated, but a new dark spot has since appeared. Lightning and auroras have been found on other giant planets, but only the auroras of have been seen on Neptune. As with the other giant planets, Neptune is emitting more energy than it receives from the Sun. The excess has been found to be 2.7 times the solar contribution.
As with other giant planets, Neptune may have no solid surface, or exact diameter. However, a mean value of 49,235.4 km may be assigned to a diameter between levels where the pressure is the same as sea level on Earth.
The 33 Segments in my Neptune year are:
#. segments spans #. segments spans
name months N-ld name months N-ld
1. Alpha 48 1358-1359 18. Antlia 48 1358
2. Beta 48 1358 19. Aquila 48 1358
3. Draco 48 1358 20. Grus 48 1358
4. Lynx 48 1358 21. Lyra 48 1358
5. Hercules 48 1358 22. Norma 48 1358
6. Serpentarius 48 1358 23. Microscopium 48 1358
7. Phoenix 48 1358 24. Monoceros 48 1358
8. Pegasus 48 1358 25. Musca 48 1358
9. Perseus 48 1358 26. Orion 48 1358
10. Lepus 48 1358 27. Sextans 48 1358
11. Octans 48 1358 28. Volans 48 1358
12. Crater 48 1358 29. Serpens 48 1358
13. Hydrus 48 1358 30. Scutum 48 1358
14. Fornax 48 1358 31. Pyxis 48 1358
15. Cygnus 48 1358 32. Sagitta 48 1358
16. Eridanus 48 1358 33. Omega 48 1358
17. Andromeda 48 1358
Largest of Neptune’s 13 satellites is Triton. It is the only moon in a retrograde orbit, which suggests that it was captured rather than having been there from the beginning. Triton’s large size, sufficient to raise significant tides on the planet, may one day, billions of Earth years from now, cause Triton to come close enough to Neptune for it to be torn apart. Triton has a tenuous atmosphere of nitrogen with trace of hydrocarbons and evidence of active geysers injecting material into it. Triton is the coldest object yet measured in the Solar System with a surface temperature of –235°C.
The 48 months in each Segment in my Neptunian year are:
#. months spans #. months spans #. months spans
1. January A 28 17. Scorpio A 28 33. May B 28
2. Terra A 28 18. September A 28 34. June B 28
3. Pisces A 28 19. Sagittarius A 28 35. Cancer B 29
4. February A 28-29 20. October A 28 36. July B 29
5. Aries A 28 21. Capricorn A 28 37. Leo B 29
6. April A 28 22. November A 28 38. Virgo B 29
7. Taurus A 28 23. Aquarius A 28 39. Libra B 29
8. Gemini A 28 24. December A 28 40. August B 29
9. May A 28 25. January B 28 41. Scorpio B 29
10. June A 28 26. Terra B 28 42. September B 29
11. Cancer A 28 27. Pisces B 28 43. Sagittarius B 29
12. July A 28 28. February B 28 44. October B 29
13. Leo A 28 29. Aries B 28 45. Capricorn B 29
14. Virgo A 28 30. April B 28 46. November B 29
15. Libra A 28 31. Taurus B 28 47. Aquarius B 29
16. August A 28 32. Gemini B 28 48. December B 29
Now I will calculate the calendar’s leap Neptune year. Its leap Neptune year will fall: every six Neptune years, omitted every 100 N-y, centurial one every 600 N-y. The leap bisol is February A 29 in Alpha. This calendar has an accuracy of 4,677,789 N-y, its Ls is the anti-meridian. To remember the lengths of the months say: “January A through Pisces A has 28 N-ld; February A has 28-29 N-ld; Aries A through June B have 28 N-ld; and all the rest have 29 N-ld,” and to remember the order refer back to my Jeremiahn Calendar for Mars and add a B section. Eventually if the colony ever got big enough we would need to develop Neptunian time zones as well. I would do this similar to the Earth’s time zones; which is add or subtract an hour every 15° E/W of the Prime Meridian, respectively. Neptune and its moons already have Equators and Prime Meridians. Someone else will name these time zones. On Neptune the GMT equivalent is Nullity Mean Time[5]. Nullity refers to being 0º E/W of Neptune’s Prime Meridian. When measuring from the Neptune’s Origin Point (0º E/W, 0º N/S) going clockwise there is 4,829.12 km between each time zone. Since Neptune has no surface colonists would be required to live in flying cities. Any lunar colonies will use this same calendar, but I will try to develop time zones for the Neptunian moons. So someone else will set up the Neptunian lunar time zones, but the Jeremiahn Variant Calendar Six will be used on these Neptunian lunar colonies. When talking about lunar time zones, Neptune has several moons; so to establish the standard for the moons I will average the diameters. Their average diameter is 316.308 km, the time zones on the Neptunian moons will have 30.841 km between each time zone; going clockwise around them when measuring from their Origin Points. This calendar is to have a seven-bisol week-cycle, so that it is liked by the religious groups. This is acceptable to religious group, making religion on Neptune easy.
Only about half of Triton has been observed, but its terrain shows cratering and a strange regional feature described as resembling the skin of a cantaloupe. Nereid has the highest orbital eccentricity (0.75) of any moon.
The seven bisols in my Neptunian week are:
7 N-ld name meaning
1 Sunbisol Sunday (weekend)
2 Mondebisol Moons’ day
3 Tuesbisol Tuesday
4 Wednesbisol Wednesday
5 Thursbisol Thursday
6 Fribisol Friday
7 Saturbisol Saturday (weekend).
This calendar’s epoch is Jesus Christ’s birth. The JD count is 1,721,419. The epoch formula for Neptune is: ((y*365.2425*24)/32.2206)/44832.172; y = current Earth year, round to nearest whole number[6]. This would make the current Neptune year be +12:01 N or +12 in Alpha N. +12:01 N or +12 in Alpha N started on January 1, +2009 E and will end on August 8, +2010 E; August 9, +2010 E will start +12:02 N or +12 in Beta N. This calendar begins on January A 1 in each segment[7]. The Neptune year starts with January A 1 in Alpha. This is a non-perpetual calendar for Neptune; it is a Vernal Equinox Calendar. With this set up I can track the actual seasons on Neptune. The Neptune year is divided into four seasons[8]. The seasons fall: Vernal Equinox is February A 4 in Alpha, Summer Solstice is July A 8 in Perseus, Autumn Equinox is July A 8 in Andromeda, and Winter Solstice is July A 8 in Musca; all jump back a bisol on leap Neptune years. The holibisols are as follows: April A 22 in Beta is Neptune Bisol, December A 10 in Beta is Exploration Bisol, and Foundation Bisol is the bisol that the first colony was established on Neptune and/or its moons[9]. Each moon will have its own Foundation Bisol which will fall according to the definition. My reasoning for basing the calendar on Neptune and not each individual moon is as follows: they are moons of Neptune with locked orbits. None of these moons rotate, in that case and only that I would base the calendar on the moon not its primary. If we had a colony on Earth’s Moon the colonists would use the Earth calendar, Gregorian, not the Chinese for day to day activities and planning[10]. So this makes it logically to design a calendar for the Neptunian moons based on Neptune not each individual moon. NASA currently does not use an independent calendar for timekeeping on Neptune and/or its moons. The age equivalencies are start school at one segment, drive at three segments and 10 months, vote at and end school at three segments and 29 months, get drunk at four segments and 10 months, and retire at 13 segments and one month. The length of a workbisol is 10 h 44' 24.72". This is simple.
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To talk evolution, I believe that people born on this planet could evolve into: Homo neptunus. Anyways people would set up everything to this calendar. The fiscal year would become just a cycle of any 33 calendar segments. When shipping between planets though everything would converted to the JD count or Earth-time. Now to talk the academic year, this would be quite different from Earth. So as to not get confused in the table below I will equate it to Earth-time for you. Our fix year is 12:05 N, so 12:06 N will start on January 1, 2011 E, and ends on November 11, 2015 E.
Triton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune, discovered on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction to its planet’s rotation. At 2700 km in diameter, it is the seventh-largest moon in the Solar System. Triton comprises more than 99.5% of all the mass known to orbit Neptune, including the planet’s rings and twelve other known moons. Because of its retrograde orbit (unique in the Solar System for an object of its size) and composition similar to Pluto’s, Triton is thought to have been captured from the Kuiper belt.
Neptune Earth-time
grades ages grades ages grades
1 p 5 p
1&10 k 6 k
1&19 1 7 1
1&29 2 8 2
1&39 3 9 3
2 4 10 4
2&10 5 11 5
2&19 6 12 6
2&29 7 13 7
2&39 8 14 8
3 9 15 9
3&10 10 16 10
3&19 11 17 11
3&29 12 18 12
The importance of these applications is: because you were born on a different planet. If we were to measure you age in Earth-time we would not be getting an accurate image of how old you actually are. By setting everything to the new planet, Neptune, an accurate image of age and operations is given. The operations image explains why companies would set their fiscal year to the planet time, Neptune. Without it set to planet time, Neptune, and not Earth-time you would not get an accurate image of these company/business operations. As far as holidays/holibisols go there calendar would show both. The holidays on Neptune, most of them would be celebrated 33 times a year; the holibisols would be celebrated once per year. This would allow each holiday to occur once per segment.
The planet time is secondary. The planet time is tracked independently from Earth-time, but it is not shown apart from Earth-time. Therefore color codes are used: Neptune is turquoise, Earth is green. The life span of a human is: 24 segments and one month.
The way these calendars would be sold is near the end of each segment, because it is longer than an Earth year. The color coded remains the same for the clocks. All planet time clocks are digital, there is no “a.m./p.m.” style for Neptune. The clocks just count h ' ". Computers meant for Neptune would show time the same way. One Neptune-sol is shown as 16h06'37.000" and One Bisol is shown as 32h13'14.000". All Earth-time is shown in GMT. The Neptune time zones are arbitrary time zones; they are set up to the Neptunian coordinate system.
If someone was born on Neptune their birth certificate would read:
“Name: Terry Hue Greenstone ###-##-####
Place: New Joplin, United States Neptune Triton Colony #####
Room ### St. John’s Hospital #### Federal Street
When: June 6, +2026 E @ 2:56 p.m. or Capricorn B 9, +12:09 N @ 20h59'04.714"”
The birth certificate example above only includes what would be different between a regular Earth birth certificate and a birth certificate for someone born on this planet, Neptune. Next I will show you an example of what that same person’s divers license would look like, enlarged picture not included. All names in these examples are fake.
“NEW JOPLIN Under 21 E-y Until Class
DRIVER LICENSE 06-06-+2047 E (F)
45-09-+12:14 N
License Number N#########
GREENSTONE
TERRY HUE
#### GRAND ST
NEW JOPLIN, U.S. NEPTUNE TRITON #####
Birth-date Expiration Date
06-06-+2026 E 06-06-+2046 E
45-09-+12:09 N 45-09-+12:13 N
(sex) (height) (weight) (eye color)
Restrictions Endorsements
(signature)”
Neptune
sol 16 h 6' 37"
2 sols
bisols 32 h 13' 14"
clock 16 h 6' 37" face
year 164.79 E-y
33 segments 1 segment = 1775.09 M-d
1823.89 E-d
1358.55 N-ld
48 months
regular = 1358 N-ld
irregular = 1359 N-ld
common year 33 regular segments
leap year 32 regular segments, 1 irregular segment
placement February A 29 in Alpha
formula +6 N-y; -100 N-y, +600 N-y
distance 30.069 AU
moons 13
week 7 N-ld
accuracy 4,677,789 N-y
GMT Nullity Mean Time
covers 4829.12 km each
epoch 12/25/+0000 E 1,721,419
+12:01 N start January 1, +2009 E
end August 8, +2010 E
seasons spring Pisces A 20 in Alpha
summer Pisces B 29 in Pegasus
fall April A 20 in Cygnus
winter May A 29 in Norma
ages start school at 1 segment and 0 months
drive at 3 segments and 10 months
vote at 3 segments and 29 months
drink alcohol at 4 segments and 10 months
retire at 13 segments and 1 month
work 10 h 44' 24.72"
competitors N/A
independence no

[1] Joyce, Alan C. Planets of the Solar System, Neptune. World Almanac. Ed 1. Vol 1. 2008. 329-330.
[2] Scientific Astronomer Documentation. anonymous. 1 January 2009. Wolfram Research, Inc. 4 April 2009 <http://documents.wolfram.com/applications/astronomer/AdditionalInformation/PlanetographicCoordinates.html>

[3] Star constellations. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Ed 2. New York: Random House, 1987.
[4] wilderness.org. Nelson, Gaylord. October 1993. Google, Inc. 13 April 2009 <http://earthday.wilderness.org/history/>
[5] Solar System Exploration. Davis, Phil. 10 February 2009. NASA. 8 April 2009 <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune&Display=Overview>
[6] Star constellations. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Ed 2. New York: Random House, 1987.
[7] Dictionary.com. anonymous. 1 January 2009. Ask.com. 2 April 2009 <http://dictionary.reference.com/translate>,Alphabetical listing of constellations. Dolan, Chris. 1 January 2005. Google, Inc. 11 May 2009 <http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellation_list.html>
[8] Rowen, Beth. Space. Time for kids Almanac. Ed 1. Vol 1. 2006. 220.
[9] Solar System Exploration. Davis, Phil. 10 February 2009. NASA. 8 April 2009 <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune&Display=Moons>
[10] Greek Alphabet. Physics and Astronomy Links - PhysLink.com. Web. 09 Sept. 2009. <http://www.physlink.com/reference/GreekAlphabet.cfm>

A Calendar Variant for Uranus

7. Uranus: 2,870,972,200 km (19.191 AU) 1 Jeremiahn Variants
Distance from the Sun
Perihelion 2,735,560,000 km
Aphelion 3,006,390,000 km
Mean distance 2,870,972,200 km (19.191 AU)
Year length 84.01 E-y
Orbital eccentricity 0.0457
Orbital inclination 0.772°
Solar day 17 h 14' 23" (retrograde)
Sidereal day 17 h 14' 24" (retrograde)
Rotational inclination 97.77°
Mass 86,849,000,000,000,000,000,000 t
Mean radius 25,559 km
Mean density 1.30 g/cm3
Moons 27
Average surface temperature* -197.22 °C
* i.e., temperature where atmosphere pressure equals one Earth atmosphere.
October 21, +2009 E 12:08 PM
October 1, +2009 E 1:46 PM
June 21, +23:01 U 00h07'48.127"
June 1, +23:01 U 13h25'34.143"
A Calendar Variant for Uranus

This is Jeremiahn Variant Calendar Five for Uranus[1]. I see no reasons why each moon of Uranus should have its own calendar. It seems much more reasonable to design the calendar for Uranus not its moons[2]. If we had a colony on Earth’s moon you would use the Gregorian or Earth calendar for daily planning, not a calendar based on the Moon like the Chinese. They are some very surprising facts about Uranus when trying to make a calendar for its moons. NASA recognizes this as Uranus’ official rotation: 17.2397 h (17 h 14' 23"), so the length I will use is that times two: 34.4794 h (34 h 28' 45.84"). Uranus rotation is retrograde, not that that is important to my calendar. This is a “bisol.” The “bisol” is the base unit[3]. The bisol is 10 h 28' 45.84" longer than a day. Two is if you take the orbit of Uranus, 84.019 E-y, but with how far away Uranus is I will make it have 31 segments of 936.427 M-d or 989.913 E-d. You take that number and put it in hours and divide that by the bisol you get 689.047 U-ld (689 U-ld 1 h 37' 13.915"). The Uranus year is divided into 31 segments of this length. The Uranus year and segment are written together like this {U-y:segment}, do this for calendar year and measuring other things such as people’s age[4]. The clock for this calendar uses our hours, minutes, and seconds. We will count 34 h 28' 45.84" before ticking to the next bisol. This clock does use a millisecond counter. It is good to preserve our hours, minutes, and seconds; because not doing so would make measuring time way too confusing. Each segment has 24 months; span 28-30 U-ld each. This calendar does start with one on its Uranus year count. A 689 U-ld regular segment and a 690 U-ld irregular segment. A common Uranus year has 31 regular segments and a leap Uranus year has 30 regular segments and one irregular segment. Uranus is 2,870,972,200 km (19.191 AU) from the Sun, which gives it a longer year.

Uranus, discovered by Sir William Herchel in 1781, was the first planet discovered using a telescope. It was named for the father of the Titans in Roman mythology.
The atmosphere is composed primarily of 82.5 percent hydrogen, 15.2 percent helium, 2.3 percent methane, with small amounts of hydrogen deutride, ammonia ice, water ice, ammonia hydrosulfide, and methane ice.
Uranus has no solid surface, and likely no rocky core but rather a mixture of rocks and assorted ices with about 15 percent hydrogen and some helium.
Uranus has 27 known moons, which have orbits lying in the plane of the planet’s equator. Five moons are relatively large, while 22 are very small and were only discovered with the Voyager 2 mission or in later observations. Miranda has grooved markings, reminiscent of Jupiter’s Ganymede, but often arranged in a chevron pattern. Rifts and channels on Ariel provide evidence of liquid flowing over its surface in the past. Umbriel is extremely dark, prompting some observers to regard its surface as among the oldest in the system. Titania has rifts fractures, but not the evidence of flow found on Ariel. Oberon’s main feature is its surface saturated with craters, unrelieved by other formations.
The 31 Segments in my Uranus year are:
#. segments spans #. segments spans
name months U-ld name months U-ld
1. Alpha 24 689-690 17. Andromeda 24 689
2. Beta 24 689 18. Antlia 24 689
3. Draco 24 689 19. Aquila 24 689
4. Lynx 24 689 20. Grus 24 689
5. Hercules 24 689 21. Lyra 24 689
6. Serpentarius 24 689 22. Norma 24 689
7. Phoenix 24 689 23. Microscopium 24 689
8. Pegasus 24 689 24. Monoceros 24 689
9. Perseus 24 689 25. Musca 24 689
10. Lepus 24 689 26. Orion 24 689
11. Octans 24 689 27. Sextans 24 689
12. Crater 24 689 28. Volans 24 689
13. Hydrus 24 689 29. Serpens 24 689
14. Fornax 24 689 30. Scutum 24 689
15. Cygnus 24 689 31. Omega 24 689
16. Eridanus 24 689
In the equatorial plane there is also a complex of 11 rings, nine of which were discovered in 1978 by observers watching Uranus pass before a star.
Once considered one of the blander-looking planets, Uranus (pronounced YOOR un nus) has been revealed as a dynamic world with some of the brightest clouds in the outer solar system and 11 rings. The first planet found with the aid of a telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel. The seventh planet from the Sun is so distant that it takes 84 E-y to complete one orbit. Uranus, with no solid surface, is one of the gas giant planets (the others are Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune).
The 24 months in each Segment in my Uranian year are:
#. months spans #. months spans
1. January 28 13. Leo 30
2. Terra 28 14. Virgo 30
3. Pisces 28 15. Libra 30
4. February 28-29 16. August 30
5. Aries 28 17. Scorpio 30
6. April 28 18. September 29
7. Taurus 28 19. Sagittarius 29
8. Gemini 28 20. October 29
9. May 28 21. Capricorn 29
10. June 28 22. November 29
11. Cancer 28 23. Aquarius 29
12. July 28 24. December 29
Now I will calculate the calendar’s leap Uranus year. Its leap Uranus year will fall: every three Uranus years, omitted every 100 U-y, centurial one every 300 U-y. The leap bisol is February 29 in Alpha. This calendar has an accuracy of 4,677,789 U-y, its Ls is the anti-meridian. To remember the lengths of the months say: “January through Pisces 28 U-ld; February has 28-29 U-ld; Aries through July all have 28 U-ld; Leo through Scorpio have 30 U-ld; and all the rest have 29 U-ld,” and to remember the order refer back to my Jeremiahn Calendar for Mars. Eventually if the colony ever got big enough we would need to develop Uranian time zones as well. I would do this similar to the Earth’s time zones; which is add or subtract an hour every 15° E/W of the Prime Meridian, respectively. Uranus and its moons already have Equators and Prime Meridians. Someone else will name these time zones. On Uranus the GMT equivalent is Zilch Mean Time[5]. Zilch refers to being 0º E/W of Uranus’ Prime Meridian. When measuring from the Uranus’ Origin Point (0º E/W, 0º N/S) going clockwise there is 4,657.616 km between each time zone. Since Uranus has no surface colonists would be required to live in flying cities. Any lunar colonies will use this same calendar, but I will try to develop time zones for the Uranian moons. So someone else will set up the Uranian lunar time zones, but the Jeremiahn Variant Calendar Five will be used on these Uranian lunar colonies. When talking about lunar time zones, Uranus has several moons; so to establish the standard for the moons I will average the diameters. Their average diameter is 252.526 km, the time zones on the Uranian moons will have 23.009 km between each time zone; going clockwise around them when measuring from their Origin Points. This calendar is to have a seven-bisol week-cycle, so that it is liked by the religious groups. This is acceptable to religious group, making religion on Uranus easy.
The atmosphere of Uranus is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, with a small amount of methane and traces of water and ammonia. Uranus gets its blue-green color from methane gas. Sunlight is reflected from Uranus’ cloud tops, which lie beneath a layer of methane gas. As the reflected sunlight passes back through this layer, the methane gas absorbs the red portion of the light, allowing the blue portion to pass through, resulting in the blue-green color that we see. The planet’s atmospheric details are very difficult to see in visible light. The bulk (80 per-cent or more) of the mass of Uranus is contained in an extended liquid core consisting primarily of ‘icy’ materials (water, methane, and ammonia), with higher-density material at depth.
In 1986, Voyager 2 observed faint cloud markings in the southern latitudes blowing westward between 100 and 600 km/h[6]. In 2004, the Keck Observatory in Hawaii used advanced optics to capture highly detailed images of Uranus as the planet approached its southern autumnal equinox, when the equator will be vertically illuminated by the Sun.
The seven bisols in my Uranian week are:
7 U-ld name meaning
1 Sunbisol Sunday (weekend)
2 Mondebisol Moons’ day
3 Tuesbisol Tuesday
4 Wednesbisol Wednesday
5 Thursbisol Thursday
6 Fribisol Friday
7 Saturbisol Saturday (weekend).
This calendar’s epoch is Jesus Christ’s birth. The JD count is 1,721,419. The epoch formula for Uranus is: ((y*365.2425*24)/34.4794)/21360.344; y = current Earth year, round to nearest whole number[7]. This would make the current Uranus year be +23:01 U or +23 in Alpha U. +23:01 U or +23 in Alpha U started on January 1, +2009 E and will end on August 15, +2010 E; August 16, +2010 E will start +23:02 U or +23 in Beta U. This calendar begins on January 1 in each segment[8]. The Uranus year starts with January 1 in Alpha. This is a non-perpetual calendar for Uranus; it is a Vernal Equinox Calendar. With this set up I can track the actual seasons on Uranus. The Uranus year is divided into four seasons[9]. The seasons fall: Vernal Equinox is January 28 in Alpha, Summer Solstice is September 13 in Pegasus, Autumn Equinox is September 13 in Cygnus, and Winter Solstice is September 13 in Norma; all jump back a bisol on leap Uranus years. The holibisols are as follows: April 22 in Beta is Uranus Bisol, December 10 in Beta is Exploration Bisol, and Foundation Bisol is the bisol that the first colony was established on Uranus and/or its moons[10]. Each moon will have its own Foundation Bisol which will fall according to the definition. My reasoning for basing the calendar on Uranus and not each individual moon is as follows: they are moons of Uranus with locked orbits. None of these moons rotate, in that case and only that I would base the calendar on the moon not its primary. If we had a colony on Earth’s Moon the colonists would use the Earth calendar, Gregorian, not the Chinese for day to day activities and planning. So this makes it logically to design a calendar for the Uranian moons based on Uranus not each individual moon. NASA currently does not use an independent calendar for timekeeping on Uranus and/or its moons[11]. The age equivalencies are start school at one segment and 20 months, drive at five segments and 22 months, vote at and end school at six segments and 15 months, get drunk at seven segments and 18 months, and retire at 24 segments. The length of a workbisol is 11 h 29' 35.28". This is simple.
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Applications information:
To talk evolution, I believe that people born on this planet could evolve into: Homo uranianus. Anyways people would set up everything to this calendar. The fiscal year would become just a cycle of any 31 calendar segments. When shipping between planets though everything would converted to the JD count or Earth-time. Now to talk the academic year, this would be quite different from Earth. So as to not get confused in the table below I will equate it to Earth-time for you. Our fix year is 24:01 U, so 24:02 U starts on October 12, 2021 E, and ends on June 28, 2024 E.
Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus’ five major moons. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 1948-02-16 at McDonald Observatory. It was named after Miranda from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest by Kuiper in his report of the discovery. The adjectival form of the name is Mirandan. It is also designated Uranus V. So far the only close-up images of Miranda are from the Voyager 2 probe, which made observations of the moon during its Uranus flyby in January, 1986. During the flyby the southern hemisphere of the moon was pointed towards the Sun so only that part was studied. Miranda shows more evidence of past geologic activity than any of the other Uranian satellites.
Uranus Earth-time
grades ages grades ages grades
1&20 p 5 p
2&5 k 6 k
2&14 1 7 1
2&21 2 8 2
3&8 3 9 3
3&17 4 10 4
4&1 5 11 5
4&10 6 12 6
4&19 7 13 7
5&4 8 14 8
5&13 9 15 9
5&22 10 16 10
6&7 11 17 11
6&15 12 18 12
The importance of these applications is: because you were born on a different planet. If we were to measure you age in Earth-time we would not be getting an accurate image of how old you actually are. By setting everything to the new planet, Uranus, an accurate image of age and operations is given. The operations image explains why companies would set their fiscal year to the planet time, Uranus. Without it set to planet time, Uranus, and not Earth-time you would not get an accurate image of these company/business operations. As far as holidays/holibisols go there calendar would show both. The holidays on Uranus, most of them would be celebrated 31 times a year; the holibisols would be celebrated once per year. This would allow each holiday to occur once per segment. The life span of a human is: one Uranus year 13 segments and seven months.
The planet time is secondary. The planet time is tracked independently from Earth-time, but it is not shown apart from Earth-time. Therefore color codes are used: Uranus is blue, Earth is green.
The way these calendars would be sold is near the end of each segment, because it is longer than an Earth year. The color coded remains the same for the clocks. All planet time clocks are digital, there is no “a.m./p.m.” style for Uranus. The clocks just count 34 h 28' 45.84". Computers meant for Uranus would show time the same way. One Uranus-sol is shown as on the clock this and that 17h14'23.000" and One Bisol is shown as 34h28'45.840". All Earth-time is shown in GMT. The Uranus time zones are arbitrary time zones; they are set up to the Uranian coordinate system.
If someone was born on Uranus their birth certificate would read:
“Name: Zachary Quest Bealeton ###-##-####
Place: New Jamestown, United States Uranus Oberon Colony #####
Room ### St. John’s Hospital #### Federal Street
When: June 6, +2026 E @ 2:56 p.m. or November 19, +24:03 U @ 30h41'39.076"”
The birth certificate example above only includes what would be different between a regular Earth birth certificate and a birth certificate for someone born on this planet, Uranus. Next I will show you an example of what that same person’s divers license would look like, enlarged picture not included. All names in these examples are fake.
“NEW JAMESTOWN Under 21 E-y Until Class
DRIVER LICENSE 06-06-+2047 E (F)
22-19-+24:12 U
License Number N#########
BEALETON
ZACHARY QUEST
#### GRAND ST
NEW JAMESTOWN, U.S. URANUS OBERON #####
Birth-date Expiration Date
06-06-+2026 E 06-06-+2046 E
22-19-+24:03 U 22-19-+24:11 U
Male (height) (weight) (eye color)
Restrictions Endorsements
(signature)”
Uranus
sol 17 h 14' 23"
2 sols
bisols 34 h 28' 45.84"
clock 17 h 14' 23" face
year 84.019 E-y
31 segments 1 segment = 936.427 M-d
989.913 E-d
689.047 U-ld
24 months
regular = 689 U-ld
irregular = 690 U-ld
common year 31 regular segments
leap year 30 regular segments, 1 irregular segment
placement February 29 in Alpha
formula +3 U-y; -100 U-y, +300 U-y
distance 19.191 AU
moons 27
week 7 U-ld
accuracy 4,677,789 U-y
GMT Zilch Mean Time
covers 4657.616 km each
epoch 12/25/+0000 E 1,721,419
+23:01 U start January 1, +2009 E
end August 15, +2010 E
seasons spring Pisces 20 in Alpha
summer Pisces 29 in Phoenix
fall April 30 in Fornax
winter May 29 in Lyra
ages start school at 1 segment and 20 months
drive at 5 segments and 22 months
vote at 6 segments and 15 months
drink alcohol at 7 segments and 18 months
retire at 24 segments and 0 months
work 11 h 29' 35.28"
competitors N/A
independence No

[1] Joyce, Alan C. Planets of the Solar System, Uranus. World Almanac. Ed 1. Vol 1. 2008. 329-330.
[2] Scientific Astronomer Documentation. anonymous. 1 January 2009. Wolfram Research, Inc. 4 April 2009 <http://documents.wolfram.com/applications/astronomer/AdditionalInformation/PlanetographicCoordinates.html>
[3] Star constellations. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Ed 2. New York: Random House, 1987.
[4] wilderness.org. Nelson, Gaylord. October 1993. Google, Inc. 13 April 2009 <http://earthday.wilderness.org/history/>
[5] Solar System Exploration. Davis, Phil. 10 February 2009. NASA. 8 April 2009 <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus&Display=Overview>
[6] Star constellations. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Ed 2. New York: Random House, 1987.
[7] Dictionary.com. anonymous. 1 January 2009. Ask.com. 2 April 2009 <http://dictionary.reference.com/translate>,Alphabetical listing of constellations. Dolan, Chris. 1 January 2005. Google, Inc. 11 May 2009 <http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellation_list.html>
[8] Rowen, Beth. Space. Time for kids Almanac. Ed 1. Vol 1. 2006. 220.
[9] Solar System Exploration. Davis, Phil. 10 February 2009. NASA. 8 April 2009 <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus&Display=Moons>
[10] Greek Alphabet. Physics and Astronomy Links - PhysLink.com. Web. 09 Sept. 2009. <http://www.physlink.com/reference/GreekAlphabet.cfm>
[11] Missions: By Target: Mars: Present. Solar System Exploration. Web. 01 Oct. 2009. <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Planet&Object=Uranus&Mission=Voyager_2>

A Calendar Variant for Mercury

1. Mercury: 57,909,175 km (0.387 AU) 1 Jeremiahn Variant
Distance from the Sun
Perihelion 46,000,000 km
Aphelion 69,820,000 km
Mean distance 57,909,175 km (0.387 AU)
Year length 87.97 E-d
Orbital eccentricity 0.2056
Orbital inclination 7.00°
Solar day 175.95 E-d
Sidereal day 58.65 E-d
Rotational inclination 0.01°
Mass 330,220,000,000,000,000,000 t
Mean radius 2,439.7 km
Mean density 5.427 g/cm3
Moons 0
Average surface temperature 167.22 °C
October 21, +2009 E 12:00 PM
September 26, +2009 E 12:05 PM
February 2, +8344 R 06h17'00.226"
January 17, +8343 R 32h00'25.805"
A Calendar Variant for Mercury

I would hope we never actually put a colony on Mercury, but so that planet time could be tracked I will make this calendar[1]. Mercury is the only planet that is in a tidal locked orbit with the sun, this is because it is the closest planet to the sun and it is this closeness that gives it its seemingly tidal locked orbit. This means that one side of Mercury is normally facing the Sun where as the other side is normally away from the Sun. That means one side is in a virtually eternal “day” and the other is in a virtually eternal “night.” Mercury surprisingly does rotate three times every two of its years. But that does not mean that it would not make a good vacation spot. A Mercury year is 87.97 E-d and a Mercury-sol is 175.94 E-d. That is right the Mercury-sol is longer than the Mercury year. This would make it unwise to put a colony there. Mercury has an average surface 167°C, the “day” side can get as hot as 430°C while the “night” side gets as cold as -170°C. Because Mercury is so close to the Sun terraforming is out of the question, even if you could the new atmosphere would be vaporized before you got done. It is all these factors together that make me say we will never put colony on Mercury, but we will go for vacation there. Mercury has ice on its poles, surprising.

This calendar is for the fun of the vacationers. This is the Jeremiahn Variant Calendar Four for Mercury[2]. There is no real use to this calendar other than just having fun. Divide the Mercury-sol 100 ways; so centisols are used on the calendar. A centisol is 42.226 h (42 h 13' 32.16"). One Mercury year is 87.97 E-d or 49.9995 R-cd (49 R-cd 42 h 12' 21.6"). [3][4]That is 18 h 13' 32.16" longer than a day. This clock will count 42 h 13' 32.16" before ticking to the next centisol; to preserve our hours, minutes, and seconds. The clock does use a millisecond counter. The base unit is the “centisol.” This calendar will have two months; span 24-26 R-cd each. It has a 50 R-cd Mercury year. [5][6][7]This calendar does start with one on its year count. Mercury is 57,909,175 km (0.387 AU) from the Sun, which gives it a shorter year.
#. months spans
1. January 24
2. February 26
This calendar is just for fun. This calendar has an accuracy of 46,689 R-y, its Ls is the anti-meridian. Eventually we would need to develop Mercurial time zones as well. I would do this similar to the Earth’s time zones; which is add or subtract an hour every 15° E/W of the Prime Meridian, respectively. On Mercury the GMT equivalent is Hun Kal Mean Time. Hun Kal is a crater that lies 20º away from Mercury’s Prime Meridian[8]. When measuring from the Mercury’s Origin Point (0º E/W, 0º N/S) going clockwise there is 363.0252 km between each time zone. Mercury has no official moons, so no lunar colony for Mercury. This calendar will have a seven-centisol week-cycle. This will be acceptable to religious groups, making religion on Mercury easy[9].
Mercury is named for the Roman gods’ messenger, is the closet planet to the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. Mercury is too much in line with the Sun to be observed against a dark sky; therefore it always seen during morning or evening twilight.
The seven centisols in my Mercurial week are:
7 R-cd name meaning
1 Suncentisol Sunday (weekend)
2 Einscentisol One day
3 Tuescentisol Tuesday
4 Dreicentisol Three day
5 Thurscentisol Thursday
6 Fricentisol Friday
7 Saturcentisol Saturday (weekend).
This calendar’s epoch is Jesus Christ’s birth. The JD count is 1,721,419. The epoch formula for Mercury is: ((y*365.2425*24)/42.226)/49.9995; y = current Earth year, round to nearest whole number. This would make the current Mercury year be +8341 R. +8341 R started on January 1, +2009 E and ended on March 29, +2009 E; March 30, +2009 E started on +8342 R. +2009 E will end as +8346 R on Mercury. This calendar begins with January 1. This is a calendar for Mercury, it is non-perpetual. Mercury does not have any seasons, therefore no need to track them. I am not going to put any holicentisols on the Mercury calendar. Because of Mercury’s closeness to the Sun a colony is undesirable, but that does not make it a bad vacation spot. NASA currently does not use an independent calendar for timekeeping on Mercury. Since there will not be a colony we do not need to worry about age equivalencies. So I will not calculate them. The length of a workcentisol is 14 h 4' 31.2". This is simple to grasp for most humans with a brain. This will be accepted by religious groups. This is simple.
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Applications information:
There are none this calendar is just for fun!!!! Mercury’s color is pink. Our fix year is 8350 R, so 8351 R start on April 12, 2011 E, and end on July 10, 2011 E.
Mercury
sol 175.94 E-d
100 R-cd
1 R-cd 42 h 13' 32.16"
clock 21 h 6' 46.08" face
year 87.97 E-d
50 R-cd
2 months
leap year N/A
distance 0.387 AU
moons 0
week 7 R-cd
accuracy 46689 R-y
GMT Hun Kal Mean Time
covers 363.0252 km each
epoch 12/25/+0000 E 1,721,419
+2009 E start +8341 R
end +8346 R
1 R-y 3 Earth months
seasons N/A holidays: N/A
ages N/A
work 14 h 4' 31.2"
competitors N/A
independence no

[1] Joyce, Alan C. Planets of the Solar System, Mercury. World Almanac. Ed 1. Vol 1. 2008. 328.

[2] wilderness.org. Nelson, Gaylord. October 1993. Google, Inc. 13 April 2009 <http://earthday.wilderness.org/history/>
[3] Star constellations. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Ed 2. New York: Random House, 1987.
[4] Scientific Astronomer Documentation. anonymous. 1 January 2009. Wolfram Research, Inc. 4 April 2009 <http://documents.wolfram.com/applications/astronomer/AdditionalInformation/PlanetographicCoordinates.html>
[5] Solar System Exploration. Davis, Phil. 21 January 2009. NASA. 8 April 2009 <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury&Display=Kids>
[6] Dictionary.com. anonymous. 1 January 2009. Ask.com. 2 April 2009 <http://dictionary.reference.com/translate>,Alphabetical listing of constellations. Dolan, Chris. 1 January 2005. Google, Inc. 11 May 2009 <http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellation_list.html>
[7] Star constellations. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Ed 2. New York: Random House, 1987.
[8] Rowen, Beth. Space. Time for kids Almanac. Ed 1. Vol 1. 2006. 219.
[9] Solar System Exploration. Davis, Phil. 21 January 2009. NASA. 8 April 2009<http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury>