Wow..quite an event. I was born with the moon in an unusual phase that day. That 12 and 24 bugs the hell out of me. It is like a puzzle,and when you get the answer it is so obvious.12 cubits in the Middle..so many possible 'middles', doubled when Folded, then put back to ORIGINAL place.So did the 24 figure come from scatterings around AND outside the middle,like the tributaries on a main river, the main river being the original 12 deep ? The Nile had specific dates attached to its flooding and receding each year.Does another astral body pass so close to another it doubles the size then moves past ?