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(Message started by: Barukh on Oct 13th, 2004, 10:16am)
Title: Earth's Rotation
Post by Barukh on Oct 13th, 2004, 10:16am
Alice has seen a distant star today at 12 o'clock.

When will she see the star at the same position tomorrow?
Title: Re: Earth's Rotation
Post by Grimbal on Oct 13th, 2004, 10:09pm
About [hide]4 minutes earlier[/hide], unless the star is called Sol.
Title: Re: Earth's Rotation
Post by rmsgrey on Oct 14th, 2004, 6:36am
Usually in the context of stars, "distant" would be taken as more than 10s of light years, not just a handful of light minutes...
Title: Re: Earth's Rotation
Post by Grimbal on Oct 14th, 2004, 8:56am
Oops, sorry, I missed the "distant" part.


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