units.

I have been asked by one of Merrystar’s coworkers to use real units when describing my son.

What’s a real unit, you may ask?

Well, my son Trip was 3.4E-12 AU and 1.54E-30 solar masses when born. And his birthdate was 2453496.3131944444 JDN, or 1115321460 in Unix time (), whichever floats your boat.

Of course, under the old Julian calendar, Trip’s birthday is April 22, 2005, which means that he was actually early, instead of being late, but then his nickname would make less sense.

Have I mentioned that I love astronomer humor? It’s probably a good thing that I married one.