Re: Calendar for 1993

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From: Leopold Travis
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 06:01

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In article <1993Jan5.053400.29449@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, 
travis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Leopold Travis) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.110210.1683@flint.comlab.ox.ac.uk>, 
>sharon@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Sharon Curtis) writes:
>....
>>Apr. 25   Mars at aphelion
>
>Is this correct?  According to the figures in the 1992 World Almanac (mean
>longitude of 297.87 degrees on 19 April 1990, longitude of perihelion
>335.81 degrees, mean daily motion of 0.524 degrees), I come out with Mars
>at aphelion sometime around 11 June 1993.

But I am wrong.  Arithmetic error.  As Homer Simpson would say, d'hooo!! 
Sorry to waste the net's time.

--
Leopold Travis
travis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu

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