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To: Slicksadick; KantianBurke
That is very close, but take the lap years into consideration then the length of the year is 365.242198 days and not 365.

An approximate calculation is here
http://www.jimloy.com/astro/year.htm
21 posted on 07/03/2003 11:16:28 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith
Sorry lap =>leap ;-)
23 posted on 07/03/2003 11:19:09 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith
That is very close, but take the lap years into consideration then the length of the year is 365.242198 days and not 365.

If you want to be that accurate you shouldn't use 186,000 miles per second. I believe the speed of light is closer to 186,284 miles per second. Plus there is some controversy whether the speed of light has remained constant throughout time.

http://www.ldolphin.org/cdkconseq.html

156 posted on 07/03/2003 5:20:25 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (Cosmo is never in a happy home.)
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