Getting a broom to stand alone has nothing to do with the date on the calendar in case you were sucked in by the original tweet.
Brooms standing up alone eclipse.
If you ve already tried this rest assured that you re not alone.
You just have to know the trick.
The same brooms standing on end today will stand on end a week from now a month from now or four months from now regardless of the positioning of the planets.
It has nothing to do with earth s gravitational pull on a certain day.
Take any flat bottomed broom it can be angled or straight with relatively stiff bristles and stand it up so that the bottom is flat on.
This isn t the first time claims have spread online that nasa said brooms can stand up on their own on the spring or vernal equinox.
It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox another day of the year when this magic supposedly happens.
Yesterday a tweet quickly went viral claiming that nasa declared february 10 the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull cue a plethora of twitter users pulling off magic tricks in the middle of their kitchens by making a broom stand up by itself.