Re: Programming a calendar system

Staving Michael Poxon:
>Sorry, I was talking about K-type stars (as in the original query), which as
>a rule won't be too far from the Sun masswise. As you say, the extremes do
>lie
>outside the middle of the main sequence, and they wouldn't be expected to
>have habitable planets anyway - again, as you say. But I didn't consider 1.6
>x the Sun's mass to be too dissimilar.
The sun is a G class star - Ks are a bit smaller and redder. Remember the
famous mnemonic

Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now!

One of my lecturers at Durham accidently started off a competition to
devise an alternative, and for the rest of the term would come into
lectures to find various slogans written on the board. These included

Only Barmy Astronomers Find Great Kudos in Mnemonics

And my own effort, which included an element of topic satire,

On Baking Atoll, Frenchmen Grill Kippers Majestically (Recherche Nucleaire!)

It may be added that research by several astronomers has discovered that
the original version is not a particularly effective chat-up line. And
neither is "Fancy a night out with the stars?"

Pete

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