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Here’s NASA misstating the distance between the Earth and the Sun: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/YOSS_Act1.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/sites/defau
by junofan 4y ago
Here’s NASA misstating the distance between the Earth and the Sun: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/YOSS_Act1.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/YOSS_Act1.pdf
Obviously the Earth’s orbit is noncircular. Is that what you mean?
- labster 4y agoAt some astronomical scales numbers like this don’t matter. Sure, if you’re doing parallax calculations you need precise orbits, but most of the time you can assume π = 3.
- andsoitis 4y agoMisstatement is different from lying, no?
- themitigating 4y agoThis says the distance is 93m miles. That's about what the distance is I'm referring to people who think it's like a few thousand feet above the earth.