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- From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
- Subject: Re: Suns,Orbits & Seasons
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.203826.14587@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov18.033047.22036@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:38:26 GMT
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- In <1992Nov18.033047.22036@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> timkin@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Wilkin) writes:
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- >Anyway, on the point of the suns orbit about the Disc':
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- >The simplest answer is that the ecliptic plane (plane of orbit around
- >the sun [...]
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- Ok, why does the sun (which does the orbiting, BTW) have to orbit in a
- plane? :-) After Terry described the orbit as "complicated", I
- started imagining these great loops and tiny spirals and abrubt
- right-angle turns. :-)
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- And back to the question of why Dunmanifestin is so cold--the Ice Giants
- live there, guys. The sun may not even be a factor. :-)
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