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The story of how they actually first measured the distance to the Sun is quite fascinating. They timed the transit Venus and used Kepler's laws to figure out th
by titzer 3y ago
The story of how they actually first measured the distance to the Sun is quite fascinating. They timed the transit Venus and used Kepler's laws to figure out the rest.
https://phys.org/news/2015-01-distance-sun.html https://phys.org/news/2015-01-distance-sun.html
- notso411 3y ago[dead]
- lttlrck 3y agoAnd they got within 3% of the true value. Incredible!
- angiosperm 3y agoAnd measured light speed by watching Jupiter's moons coming around late.