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To: 1Old Pro
According to the chart above, we do gain daylight a little faster in March and April as opposed to January and February. I theory is that as the year orbits around the sun, the axis changes. This is what causes seasons. But the Earth is not perfectly round, having a sharper radius at the equator.
The table shows we gain about one minute per day and a half in Jan and Feb at sunset and one minute per day at sunset for March an April.
7 posted on 12/21/2005 7:55:17 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (I'm your huckleberry)
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To: HOTTIEBOY
I theory is that as the year orbits around the sun, the axis changes.

Should say: My theory is that as the earth orbits around the sun, the axis changes.
8 posted on 12/21/2005 7:57:34 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (I'm your huckleberry)
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"we do gain daylight a little faster in March and April as opposed to January and February"


I don't know much, but the Earth's orbit is ellipical, not round. That could be the cause (though the deviation from the circular is actually small.)


13 posted on 12/22/2005 8:30:55 PM PST by strategofr
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