If you want to feel a little younger, you can always decide to celebrate your birthday on Mars. It is better not to travel to Venus if you have age related complications. For example, I’m 37.5 years old on Earth, but on Mars I’m a 19.9-year-old young woman, and on Venus I’m about to retire at 60.9. In fact, there is a planet where I am older, because on Mercury I would be 155.7 years old. I calculated all this thanks to a website where they don’t just calculate with the planets in the solar system. They also tell you your age on some exoplanets and asteroids. They even calculate for the sun.
From November 4, the website opens an online store, where you can buy a calendar with the birthday of your place and your family members, although they will only be sent to the United States, so a printable document will also be for sale. Be that as it may, you don’t have to pay or wait to get counted. You can now start playing with the web.
Origin of information. You just need to enter your name and your date of birth on the website to get calculated. Automatically, you get the statistics, which calculates how many days ago you were born and extrapolates them to the days of a year in each of those objects. You already have the age with a simple division. For Solar System planets and dwarf planets, the length of each year comes from the NASA Planetary Data Sheet. On the other hand, for asteroids and comets, statistics from NASA’s JPL Horizons system are taken into account. We can even know our age on some exoplanets. In this case, they are calculated with data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Since almost all of them are very small, count only “round” birthdays: every 10, 100 or 1,000.
A special case of the Sun. It is not possible to calculate how long a year lasts on the Sun, because it is the Sun itself that sets the years (it takes time for each object to make one complete revolution around it). Therefore, to know our age of Sun, only its rotation is considered. Its equator rotates once every 25.05 days and each rotation is a “solar day”. I, for example, have 547 solar days.
Your map around the sun. Without paying anything, you can see the map of your birthday around the sun on the screen. It is an image with the Sun at its center, surrounded by a ring for each of the planets in the solar system. Each ring has a more intense color arc, showing how far that planet has traveled since your last birthday.
Celebrate all your birthdays. Another interesting information that this website offers you is your birthday in each of these places. It explains how much is left for each and even tells you which one is next. For example, my next birthday will be on Friday, Halloween. If you want your family and friends to give you more gifts, you can always try giving them more birthdays in addition to the one on earth. Perhaps it will not work, but you will seem like a very cultured person (or geek).
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