Galactic Tick Day
Galactic Tick Day is an awareness and education day that celebrates the movement of the Solar System around the Milky Way galaxy. The day occurs at a regular interval of 1.7361 years (or 633.7 days), which is called a galactic tick. The interval is derived from one centi-arcsecond of a galactic year, which is the Solar System's roughly 225-million-year trip around the Galactic Center. One galactic tick is only about 0.00000077 percent (1/[360 × 60 × 60 × 100]) of a full galactic year. Occurrences The first Galactic Tick Day took place on the day Hans Lippershey filed the patent for the telescope on 2 October, 1608. The first observance of the holiday was on 29 September 2016, the 235th Galactic Tick Day. Below is a list of further observances: See also Astronomical chronology Chronology Cosmic Calendar References External links Galactic Tick website IFLScience.com article about Galactic Tick Day Disquiet Junto Project 0248: Galactic Tick musical compositions on SoundCloud GalacticTick on GitHub Awareness days Observances about science Unofficial observances Milky Way