On 12/15/06, Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't got a clue as to what Solstice is, but Bill Sconce's response
When the earth is furthest/nearest the sun. Winter solstice is Dec
21st. Summer is June 21st.
infers that it's got something remotely to do with Linux, therefore
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 09:03 -0500, Tom Buskey wrote:
On 12/15/06, Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't got a clue as to what Solstice is, but Bill Sconce's response
When the earth is furthest/nearest the sun. Winter solstice is Dec
21st. Summer is June 21st.
NO, thats
It's actually the other way 'round. The earth is closer to the sun on
the winter solstice.
Closer, but not quite closest!
Solstice and Equinox are defined in terms of sun angles (declination)
and length of daylight, and has to do with tilt of the axis of Earth
wrto to Sun. On Solstice, the
Jason Stephenson wrote:
Tom Buskey wrote:
On 12/15/06, Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't got a clue as to what Solstice is, but Bill Sconce's response
When the earth is furthest/nearest the sun. Winter solstice is Dec
21st. Summer is June 21st.
It's actually
On 12/16/06, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The solstices are when the the Sun is directly overhead at some point
on the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn.
I thought Solstice was the system software division of Sun Microsystems.
-- Ben
