A blog post by Bob Henson: "It's January: Time for Earth's Closest Approach to the Sun (True)"
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Chris in Tampa on 1/3/2019, 8:19 pm
He also talks about why we have seasons (Earth's tilt relative to orbit), how some confuse why we have seasons (thinking it is related to distance of the Earth to the Sun) and other related things:
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Its-January-Time-Earths-Closest-Approach-Sun-True
"Confusion about seasonality became a focus of science educators thanks to a powerful documentary called 'A Private Universe', produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in 1987. In the opening clip of the documentary, several freshly minted Harvard graduates were quizzed on commencement day about what caused the seasons - and the results were eye-opening. Only 2 of the 23 randomly interviewed Harvard grads gave a complete and correct answer." |
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A blog post by Bob Henson: "It's January: Time for Earth's Closest Approach to the Sun (True)" - Chris in Tampa, 1/3/2019, 8:19 pm
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