Brooms Stand Up Equinox

It s an old tradition.

Brooms stand up equinox.

Social media the day of the spring equinox is often ablaze with images of people balancing their brooms. Spring equinox irrelevant. A special property of the equinox allows eggs or brooms to be balanced on their ends that day. 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.

You can stand your broom up on its own today because of the tilt of the earth today. 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. For one thing the spring equinox which occurs every year in late march has nothing to do with brooms standing on end. It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox another day of the year when this magic supposedly happens.

It has nothing to do with earth s gravitational pull on a certain day. People stand up brooms on the day of the spring equinox. 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 example mercury venus mars jupiter and saturn aligned most recently in 2016 but astronomers say such events have negligible effects on earthly.

Second this is a good opportunity to explain the equinox. 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. Nasa didn t say that a broom would stand up on a certain date but many people fell for it. Popped up as a subject discussed.

Neither do other planetary alignments. All sorts of people and brooms got in on the fun. Ground and watching in amazement as the eggs stand on end.