[time-nuts] NPR: Transit Of Venus Reveals Secrets Of Universe
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Jun 7 20:50:17 UTC 2012
http://tinyurl.com/6q75f9a
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/05/154377259/transit-of-venus-reveals-secrets-of-un
iverse
Audio is 4 minutes.
CHIN: And from all the data that was compiled at that time [1761 and 1769],
they estimated the Astronomical Unit was about 95 million miles, which was
not a bad estimate.
CHIN: It provided the scale of the solar system. A couple hundred years ago
that was the forefront of science.
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