“From the rising of the sun to its setting,
the name of the Lord is to be praised!” -Psalm 113:3
The heat we endured at noontide and the stunning light we admired at dusk radiated from this single source over 93,000,000 miles away.
The planet with the shortest day is Jupiter which rotates in only 10 hours. The planet with the longest year is Neptune which takes 60,188 days to revolve around the sun.
But Venus takes 243 days just to rotate on it’s axis and only 225 days to revolve around the sun. That means Venus’s day is longer than it’s year!
Teacher’s Two Cents (by Mom)
2 Peter 3:8 says that “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” I guess that’s also true on Venus!
Of course there have been days that have felt like a thousand years to me here on earth, too. And more than one year has flashed by like a day.
To celebrate the start of our astronomy themed school year we had a hearty breakfast of “Stars and Planets.” I made Aebelskivers (Danish pancake balls) sprinkled with star-dust (Trader Joe’s new cinnamon-sugar grinder) and sliced up some star fruit. Served it all up with some Hawaiian coconut syrup and guava jam and thanksgiving to God for His abundant provision.
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