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To: BenLurkin

Wait, if earth is directly between the sun and Jupiter, won’t that cause a jovian eclipse?


42 posted on 06/06/2019 12:03:05 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Chaguito
Wait, if earth is directly between the sun and Jupiter, won’t that cause a jovian eclipse?

Well, sure... it will definitely block out a small percentage of the sun for any Jovians staring at the sun at that moment.

Kind of like a basketball placed 4 times further from you than the Sears Tower will block that out for you.

Distance of earth to sun - 93m mi...
distance of Jupiter to the sun - 484m mi... (5.2 times more distant)

Earth's diameter - 7900 mi...
Sun's diameter - 866,000 mi... (109 times larger)

48 posted on 06/06/2019 5:38:29 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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