A simple pattern emerges when looking at the Earth-Mars synodic conjunctions.
Focussing on the numbers of Mars orbits that are equal, or almost equal, to an exact number of Earth orbits (years), the pattern can be found by subtracting the number of conjunctions from the number of Mars orbits.
The difference between the two sets of numbers follows the Fibonacci series, which is strongly related to the golden ratio.
On the right is a method for constructing the same table using Fibonacci and Lucas numbers.
It’s included here simply because it works.
Note that the ‘+’ numbers on the far right follow the Fibonacci series from the beginning i.e. 0.
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May 1, 2019 at 04:24AM
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