Ron’s Clue - p.27

[morpheus221]

-description of lunar eclipse
-specific times provided, lasts 36 minutes total, broken down into 18 minute halves
-seems to tie into overall astronomy theme

Ideas:
Could one of the time points be a clue to location of the treasure? If Empire State Building is center point, could 8:23 be telling us to go East (towards Hamptons?)

[choice]

Many possibilities here. Here're 3:
1) Could be a vector direction. Start from 8:23, end at 8:41.
2) Could be a nod to the long equation being the numeric representation for 12² + 9² = 15². 12+9+15=36
3) 18 twice could be 18th letter of alphabet twice or 2r. Combine that with Pi-C and you get the formula for circumference of a circle C=2πr. Already calculated r for 12 previously.

[morpheus221]

How about radians of arc. Look at 100 mile radius with Empire State Building at center. Treasure location is somewhere between 8:05 and 8:41.

I do like how this might tie in with the aviation chapter. A “triangle” is created by the flight path.

Overlapping these two ideas creates sort of a Venn Diagram where we narrow down the search area.