Re: moonrise and time offset

From: Henry (henry_at_spamtrap.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:28:56 +0100

"Joerg Sczepek" <jsczepek@web.de> wrote in message
news:25a5826a.0408030248.140f0bf1@posting.google.com...
> Dear forum,
>
> a popular science book told me that the time offset between the
> moonrises on two following days, that can be as long as 90 minutes in
> spring and as short as 25 minutes in autumn, is due to the inclination
> of the erathīs axis. But if thatīs true, why donīt the sunrises have
> such an offset as well as the sun should suffer from that same
> inclination ? I hope anybody can give me some inlightment about the
> problem.
>

Because the Sun is not in a 28 day orbit round the Earth?

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