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Once again, thank you for proving me right, Cav.

Apparently, you don't have the slightest idea what orbital mechanics mean - like the fact that, In February, "straight up" from Macross island will be in a RADICALLY different vector in relation to the Sun and planets than in February. PLUTO'S POSITION was NEVER a factor. The orbit of Pluto is THE ORBIT OF PLUTO, not ORBITING PLUTO. For example, the Trojan points of Jupiter orbit are in Jupiter's orbital path around the sun, as far FROM the sun as Jupiter, but in Jupiter's L4 & L5 positions, 60 degrees further along or behind the planet than Jupiter (hundreds of millions of miles). The spot 93 million miles out from the sun in the opposite direction of Earth is STILL in the orbital distance of the sun from Earth.

In fact, the direction should be about 120 degrees different (using the sun as the center of the circle) in June, than in February, 150 degrees in July. To give you proper reference points, within the pictures (assuming I am seeing which planet is Earth correctly), in the February pic, the vector would be roughly toward the "e" in "above" in the "View of Solar System from above", because of the time of day the fold occurred (evening, after a noonish launch and a day-long battle), and where the position of the sun because of the time of day, would place the island. In the June pic, the vector would be roughly toward the "0" in "Solar System Simulator V4.0".

Oh, to answer one of your points in the other thread, at the same time as this one. Whatever propulsion method they are using apparently is such that it took them 2-3 months, at least, to get to Saturn, as it took long enough for Rick to complete basic training to get into uniform, and we know their fold system was gone, and their gravity systems being problematic. We do know that their backup conventional thrusters did work, and were sufficient power for liftoff, so while they were repairing (if not outright replacing - we don't know if the gravity modules that tore free in the first few episodes actually landed close enough to Macross to be salvaged afer the fold) the gravity engines for their later use on Mars, it would be best to use what they know DOES work (note Gloval's comments after the gravity engines failed on Earth), to get on a course that won't get the ship lost in space on an oddball course that the MUCH LESS CAPABLE remaining Earth ships (remember, most already built were destroyed when the SDF-1 tried to link up to them in orbit) could not catch. And, that means a good, old fashioned, elliptical or parabolic orbit that utilizes the tried and true science NASA, the ESA, the Russians and everyone else has used for 50 years - which also, BTW, conserves whatever fuel they have, as it allows use of the sun's gravity, and any planets along the way, to either brake, or to increase, speed, using their gravity wells.

Regardless, the vector that occurs for the February fold would not have ANY form of course approach ANY planet other than Earth, no matter WHAT form of propulsion the ship used. it would pretty much be a direct flight.

Regardless of the COINCIDENCE, we don't really know if that was even considered by the Macross creators (though, having met people like Itano, and sat at panels where he pretty much displayed he and the others had been aerospace geeks since childhood - we had to take him to the USAF museum at Wright-Pat just to GET him as a guest, making him unavailable for one full day of the con), it is possible that they did during pre-production, then forgot when reworking the timeline for DYRL (as frankly, the way DYRL started, no launch date was given, and frankly was immaterial to the story - date cues are non-existent in the movie, except maybe at the "peace ceremony", where I know that, at least in the dub, a date for the Bodolza peace treaty was given).

I don't know WHY you insist on making it an issue, when those of us pointing out that the old dates actually work (when the modern retcons don't) repeatedly say that it's a happy coincidence, at worst, and that modern fandom of just about ANYTHING will nitpick such things if the science doesn't work out without being given a proper deus ex machina to get around it. Then, you go out of your way to proide proof to support our arguments, while insisting it disproves them.