The July 15 & 22, 2008, Avebury Crop Circles: 2012 & Barbarossa
For pictures of the crop formations, see
www.realufos.net
, blog article dated Aug. 1, 2008 (find by typing "Avebury 2008 2012 July" in that site's search window).
The July 15 crop formation, I've discussed in earlier posts to this thread. The consensus of crop circle expert opinion is that this formation shows the positions of the planets (except that Pluto is perturbed) for Dec. 23, 2012. I myself confirmed that this is true to within a few days.
The less well known nearby second formation, of July 22, was, according to commentary on
www.realufos.net
, unexplainedly censored by usually reliable sources. It shows, among other things, a small ellipse.
If I measure from the centers of the small circles along that small ellipse, I find that its eccentricity is about the same as the eccentricity of Barbarossa's orbit. Using the apparent (perspective) axis ratio of Neptune's orbit on the same photo (in the July 15 circle), to correct for perspective by multiplying the minor axis of the small ellipse by that factor, I get eccentricity 0.68 based on the small ellipse's axis ratio. Based on the position of the presumed "Sun" mark, i.e. focus, on the long axis of the small ellipse, I get eccentricity 0.53. Thus the best estimate is e=0.605+/-0.053 (SEM). Barbarossa's eccentricity calculated from the sky survey positions, is e=0.6106.
The large circle (of the second formation, July 22) has a small circle attached to it, on the side near the original July 15 formation; the small circle might signify Neptune's orbit and the large circle Barbarossa's. The ratio of the circles' radii (measuring all the way to the edge of the thick white line demarcating the small circle) is about 11.8::1. The ratio of Barbarossa's to Neptune's major axes, is 343.84/30.07 = 11.4::1.
