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Perhaps that's because students are not taught from a young
age that 8 minutes is somewhere between 7.5 to 8.4 min.???
bc
Leigh Palmer wrote:
Regarding Leigh's confirmation of my 1 AU distance quote
from JPL:
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David Bowman
David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu
Ah!!! I was hoping someone would grab that bait. I set
that that trap
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Unit. That "eight minute" number we learned in elementary
school just annoys me with its imprecision and needless
inaccuracy. Remember also that there is a +/- nine second
variation due to the eccentricity of Earth's orbit in the
actual transit time.
Leigh