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Re: Sun's distance



In some sense, you indirectly measure the average distance to the sun when
you measure the period of our earth's orbit, the year.

John,
This presupposes that you know the mass of the sun! One of the problems of
the observation sciences is that everything is interconnected, its mass is
determined from knowing the Earth Sun distance and the Earth's (or for the
Aristotelians and relativistists the Sun's) period.

Gary

Gary Karshner

St. Mary's University
San Antonio, Texas
KARSHNER@STMARYTX.EDU