3. We had better do it right and use more precise measures, and then we will find that there are slightly more than 1000 minutes to the Peacock:
1000.85 / 1440 * 360 = 250 days, which perhaps was meant to be an allusion to the position of Antares who was said to announce the arrival of the Polynesian summer:
There are 242 glyphs on side b and α Pavonis could indicate the beginning of the back side of the text:
On the other hand, glyph number 236 (Gb1-6) seems to be the last of the front side, because we can in Gb1-7 see what happens to Mars. Gb1-6 is glyph number 295 if we count from tamaiti in Gb7-3:
242 + 59 = 301 = 300 + 1:
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