Subject: Re: The symbols on the black box
From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer)
Date: 1991-04-21, 18:47
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Apr20.092814.21602@athena.mit.edu> astronut@athena.mit.edu (Robert M Sanner) writes:
> >
> >I'm a bit behind in the postings, so forgive me if this has already
> >been pointed out, but why couldn't this "paw print" be (yet another) symbol
> >for Jupiter?  The planet itself, with its four Galilean satellites (Io,
> >Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) would be all ancient star gazers would be
> >able to discern...

It would only be Jupiter if seen from over one of its own poles.  Jupiter,
like everything else except Uranus, has its axis more-or-less perpendicular
to the ecliptic plane, so from Earth or anywhere else in the plane, it
looks like this:

. . *  .   .

Where the "."s are the Galilean satellites and "*" is Jupiter.

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