The Calendar, Australia & White Christmas | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

Want to ask some sort of crazy question about Space?: Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: Help translate our videos! Let us know what topics you want to learn more about: Australia will perpetually encounter the season opposite to the one we in the northern hemisphere will encounter, so does this means that Australia will never get a white Christmas? You may think the answer is YES, but on this week’s episode of Space Time we look at how Earth’s orbit around the sun, tilt on its axis, and other motions combine with our own perception of time to make this answer not be as definite as you might think! Check it out! Extra Credit: Veritasium gyroscope video: Other resources on gyroscopic precession: Other videos about leap years, years and the calendar: (It's Okay to be Smart) (minutephysics) (CGP Grey) The tropical year and the solar calendar: Long-term orbit of Earth through space: ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­­­---------------------------­-­-­-­- Comments: acapellascience Ben McLean Jack King Music: Saw Slicing - Patternbased ( Heisse Luft - Thompson and Kuhl ( u dont know im fadin Deep Blue - Janne Hanhisuanto ( Earth Breath - Human Terminal ( Tropico de Tauro - Sr. Aye Secret Society - Logical Disorder ( New SpaceTime episodes every Wednesday! Hosted by Gabe Perez-Giz Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)