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Re: Simple Calculation of Sunset Time required

Subject: Re: Simple Calculation of Sunset Time required
From: "rlsusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <NoSuchPerson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:21:22 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.astro, sci.astro.amateur, comp.home.automation


oriel36 wrote:
On Apr 21, 6:18 pm, "TR Oltrogge" <troltro...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


   (2) Elapsed Time

       The earth rotates on its own axis approximately every 23 hours 56 
minutes 4 seconds (a sidereal day). So
       even though the observer is fixed in geographic latitude and longitude 
his effective longitude increases
       by 360 degrees every 23h56m4s.

I still think it is remarkable that there is a large section of people
who  have actually  found a way to believe the nonsense of a
correlation between  the Earth's rotation through 360 degrees and the
value of 23 hours 56 min 04 seconds...

OMG, are we going to rehash this nonsense YET AGAIN??????????? Just google if you really want to see the same inane arguments over and over again. There's nothing new to say here!

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