Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > I ask the students when they think Earth is > closest to the Sun. Few guess anywhere near the correct answer (sometime > between Jan 1 & 4 on the calendar: > Of course, we the Southerners can't use this to explain that the seasons are caused by the inclination and not the eccentricity :-)
[but OTOH we all know that Xmas is a time of snow for the Northerners, which is a way to debunk the ecc myth] Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
