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		titzer on Jan 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How far could the sun possibly be? 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

lttlrck on Jan 23, 2024 | [–]

And they got within 3% of the true value. Incredible!

angiosperm on Jan 23, 2024 | [–]

And measured light speed by watching Jupiter's moons coming around late.

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