[LEAPSECS] new delta-T data point

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2017-10-30T16:23:57-0700 Tom Van Baak hath writ:
> In the news...
>
> https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/58/5/5.39/4159289/Solar-eclipse-of-1207-BC-helps-to-date
> ( https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-pdf/58/5/5.39/20098470/atx178.pdf )

Alas for Delta T on date -1206 October 30, that annular eclipse moves
almost entirely along a parallel of latitude, so Delta T pretty much
only affects the endpoint where the eclipse happened at sunset.

I'm a bit disturbed by the plotted path of that eclipse because it is
very wide and includes the entire Nile delta as well as modern
Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and Baghdad at sunset.  Unless weather
prevented it, somebody else should have made a record of that eclipse.

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