AriQ for Shuttle Challenger explosion

[Jim Eshelman]

I'm currently in a project that includes (among other things) checking ingress transits and quotidians for all four solar ingresses. It's too early to give final conclusions, but not too early to give some of the noteworthy examples.

We've seen an occasional interesting example from the Arisolar Quotidian (AriQ). Using the small number I have completed so far (which, admittedly, is more event examples than Bradley used in his entire mid-'50s study), less than 70% of all AriQ examples score at least +1. That is, less than 70% are, on balance, more expressive than not of the event. That's very low, and I don't think it's going to prove a useful technique. I hope, along the way, to find whether there are particular contexts in which we can turn to it and get consistently reliable results, but I'm not there yet.

Anyway... the Challenger exploded on takeoff January 29, 1986, 11:39:13 AM, at Cape Canaveral, FL. Calculate the Arisolar, then progress it to the event, using coordinates 28N24'20", 80W36'18". You'll find a chart more expressive than every other chart previously examined in the stack, and worthy of an easy +3 score:

13°10' Sco - t. Saturn
14°18' Sco - p. MC

2°25' Aqu - p. Asc
2°25' Sco - s. Saturn [s. Saturn 2°27']
2°45' Sco - t. Mars

Thought you'd like to see the example.