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Re: Lunar Distance in Wikipedia
From: Richard M Pisko
Date: 2007 Jul 26, 18:04 -0600
From: Richard M Pisko
Date: 2007 Jul 26, 18:04 -0600
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:06:25 -0600, <539dkp802@sneakemail.com> wrote: > "the distance between the moon and the sun will have changed by > approximately one lunar diameter" > How's that? > Seems better to me. I think the meaning is clear. So for 24 hours, there should be about 24 moon diameters difference in distance - about 12 degrees - and 30 days brings it back to the original position. Yup, the mental arithmetic works out. Thank you. :-) -- Richard . . . Using Opera's e-mail client since Dialog, "the Dog", died. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
