Brooms Stand Up Equinox

A special property of the equinox allows eggs or brooms to be balanced on their ends that day.

Brooms stand up equinox.

People stand up brooms on the day of the spring equinox. It has nothing to do with earth s gravitational pull on a certain day. For one thing the spring equinox which occurs every year in late march has nothing to do with brooms standing on end. It s an old tradition.

At the end of the day it was harmless. Second this is a good opportunity to explain the equinox. It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox another day of the year when this magic supposedly happens. Social media the day of the spring equinox is often ablaze with images of people balancing their brooms.

For example mercury venus mars jupiter and saturn aligned most recently in 2016 but astronomers say such events have negligible effects on earthly. Straight angled synthetic and corn brooms all seem to be held into place on the big day affected by unknown forces upon the earth. Ground and watching in amazement as the eggs stand on end. Spring equinox irrelevant.

Neither do other planetary alignments. All sorts of people and brooms got in on the fun. Popped up as a subject discussed. Yes the broom stands up because of gravity but yesterday s gravity wasn t special or different.

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. Nasa said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull posted a twitter user in the us on monday in footage which has been viewed millions of times.