Yea..but Parsec sounds cool. Not only that, but the game Parsec for the TI 99/4A was awesome. heh.
Sorry..couldn't resist. A question I had though, concerning earlier messages, was why do people have a problem with the term and loose measurement "light-year"? I happen to like light-year actually....it's not a true measurement, but more of a relative visualization of distance. (which I guess all measurement is I guess) It's like saying.....how far is it to Spokane? Oh..about 5 hours. At 14:27 2002-04-29 +0000, Barbara and/or Bill Hooper wrote: >In a previous message I did not know for sure what the abbreviation was for >the parsec. I have found the correct abbreviation to be pc (not ps). > >1 pc = 30.857 Pm > >Regards, Bill Hooper >physics professor (retired), Florida, USA > >P.S. >For those unfamiliar with the parsec, it is defined as the distance to a >star if that star exhibits a solar paralax of 1 second of arc. Solar paralax >is defined as the angular difference between the apparent position of a star >(measured against more distance background stars) as seen from the Sun and >the apparent position of the star as seen from Earth at a position in it's >orbit 90 degrees from the direction to the star. (In practice, the position >of the star can be measured from the Earth at opposite points in its orbit, >each 90 degrees from the star, with the resulting angular difference being >divided by 2.) > > ======================== > Keep It Simple - Make It Metric! > ========================
