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To: dr_lew

Apparent diameter? Those bodies have a round shape like me.

But you don’t want to see my moon.


36 posted on 07/18/2016 9:55:55 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Rockpile
Apparent diameter?

This is, in other words, the angular diameter of the object as it appears in the sky, expressed in radians. The apparent diameter of the sun and the moon is about 1/100, meaning that they are each distant from the earth by about 100 of their own diameters ( rule of thumb. )

38 posted on 07/18/2016 10:06:58 PM PDT by dr_lew
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