Ms. KRUMHOLZ: They are ahead of even the quotas that the candidates had kind of set for themselves, which when the set them back in the start of the year, seemed astronomical.
Despite the astronomical odds of winning, this year was a great one for American lotto, with multiple record-breaking jackpots.
In 1989, Pluto was as close to the Sun as it gets during its long year - less than 30 astronomical units (AU), or 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.
Principal Stephanie Golub reached out to the Institute several years ago when she realized that her students were being pulled out of the classroom for disruptive behaviors an astronomical 2, 200 times per school year, she said.
Scafetta believes that a natural 60-year climate cycle associated with astronomical cycles may also explain calendars adopted in traditional Chinese, Tamil and Tibetan civilizations, since all major ancient civilizations knew about 20-year and 60-year Jupiter and Saturn cycles.
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It is celebrated on 21 March every year, a date originally determined by astronomical calculations.
This, if true, will be a steep decline from the same period last year when the y-o-y growth was an astronomical 130%.
But this year, young voters made up their minds early on, and the astronomical levels of support for Obama made a big difference in the primaries and make a big difference in the general election.
From 1990 to date, the two decades of explosive growth since the effective launch of the Internet as we know it, Web traffic grew a staggering one-million-fold from a puny 48 terabytes a year (a few desktops now contain that much data) to an astronomical 60 exabytes.
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This marks a big fall over the past several years, but is still astronomical by international standards (the murder rate was 5.6 per 100, 000 in the United States last year).
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