Brooms Standing Up During Eclipse

A viral tweet claims nasa says the earth s gravitational pull causes brooms to stand up straight for one day only but experts say this trick works any day of the year.

Brooms standing up during eclipse.

Standing an egg on its end is something that can be done any day of the year but most people never try it on any day other than the equinox. Tons of tweets and posts on facebook prove brooms and even eggs are standing. Well apparently it s happening all over. So why is this happening.

That urban legend is false of course i have a suspicion that the person asking this question has heard a similar urban. As the woman watches the broom stand up on its own she yells no strings nothing. Broomchallenge brooms nasa harry potter theme song ost. March 20th is the first day of spring or vernal equinox as it s known to astronomers vernal meaning of or pertaining to spring equinox meaning equal night as the angle of the earth s inclination toward the sun changes throughout the year lengthening or shortening the days according to the season and hemisphere there are two times annually when day and night are of more or less.

The broom trick is a variation on the egg trick the supposed phenomenon of raw eggs standing on end during and only during an equinox a date on which the plane of earth s equator passes through the center of the sun and the earth and sun are aligned such that day and night are of equal length. And no i don t have any ghosts in my house at least not any cleaning ghosts. There is an urban legend that a broom will stand by itself during an equinox. Brooms are standing up on their own today.

It has nothing to do with earth s gravitational pull on a certain day. It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox another day of the year when this magic supposedly happens.