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Is there something close to a consensus on Earth-Sun annual distance increase (speed)?
I've seen estimates varying by an order of magnitude, e.g. (New Scientist)
Having such a precise yardstick allowed Russian dynamicists Gregoriy A. Krasinsky and Victor A. Brumberg to calculate, in ...
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Earth Versus Catastrophic Meteor
How evasive is the Earth to Catastrophic Meteors?
Google says the Earth is approximately 92.96 million miles from the Sun. It also says the suns radius is 432,474 miles.
Therefore, it is 93,392,474 ...
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Is the ratio between earth's distance from the sun and the speed of light just a coincidence?
I was doing some calculations to see how hard it would be to observe the speed of light and discovered an interesting correlation between the speed of light and the average distance from the earth to ...
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Why don't we feel the speed of earth moving
When we move our vehicle, we "feel" the speed of it. However, when stationary, we still are moving,but moving by quiet a speed. We know that earth moves with X ...
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