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To: RadioAstronomer
Anyone can get a pretty fair estimate of the speed of light with only a telescope and a good clock. Measuring the Speed of Light with Jupiter's Moons.
346 posted on 05/23/2005 6:38:43 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

Nice link.

My method is more messy (fun, not to mention cheese Mmmm) but I have a feeling the microwave oven was not yet in wide spread use back in Newton's day. :-)


422 posted on 05/24/2005 6:07:22 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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