#122852 - 04/27/07 12:17 AM
Re: Stars are God's Fireworks
[Re: D. Allan]
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I think it's more like 8 light-minutes, from memory.
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#122854 - 04/27/07 12:26 AM
Re: Stars are God's Fireworks
[Re: Bravus]
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More than that from MY memory...
You guys are so smart!
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#122903 - 04/27/07 07:15 AM
Re: Stars are God's Fireworks
[Re: D. Allan]
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"Three light-minutes" seems to blaze up into my memory. ¿About 33.48 million miles? Well, simple enough to confirm, I think: 1 light-minute = 11,160,000 miles. The distance earth-sun is 1 AU (92,955,807 miles ). Divide 1 AU by that, and you get 8.329 light-minutes. Dave
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#122931 - 04/27/07 04:38 PM
Re: Stars are God's Fireworks
[Re: D. Allan]
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Craftsman
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Dabba, if we were ONE light-minute closer, things would get a warm (though not broiled, no doubt.) FIVE light-minutes closer would, indeed, make a huge difference in the temperature.
Dave
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#122980 - 04/27/07 10:16 PM
Re: Stars are God's Fireworks
[Re: David Koot]
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Some of the thrown material reaches Earth itself. It is travelling a lot slower than light, and it is electrically charged, so it gets pulled to the northern and southern magnetic poles where it causes... Aurora! http://www.weatherpaparazzi.com/Aurora.aspIf you want to schedule a trip to see them for yourself... http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/When did scientists first measure the distance to the sun and get a number right to within 25%, and how was it done?
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#122993 - 04/27/07 11:51 PM
Re: Stars are God's Fireworks
[Re: D. Allan]
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Well, Eratosthenes did this thing involving shadows, and decided the sun was a few thousand miles away - and then some bright spark realized that the Earth was a sphere, not a plane, and that they had got the radius of the earth, not the distance to the sun... http://outreach.as.utexas.edu/marykay/assignments/eratos1.html Try again...
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