Re: [LEAPSECS] name the equinox contest on now

From: <jcowan_at_reutershealth.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:01:04 -0500

Steve Allen scripsit:

> I offer that I have covered this and given references to the critical
> papers in the chain of definitions on my web page at
>
> http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html

A great paper! I particularly like this sentence:

        Nevertheless, Newcomb knew that his expressions for the fictitious
        mean sun would eventually deviate from the position of the actual
        mean sun.

Of course, there is no "actual mean sun"; the luminous orb in the sky is the
"actual actual sun".

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