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Re: Sun Slow Day
From: John Huth
Date: 2011 Feb 10, 12:22 -0500
From: John Huth
Date: 2011 Feb 10, 12:22 -0500
The asymmetry is I think the result of an elliptical orbit around the Sun (Kepler discovery ?).
I believe Ptolemy caught this one first. He had circular orbits with the center of the orbit displaced in order to get this in a geocentric model.