Congratulations guys !

"Astronomers use sidereal time as a way to keep track of the direction
in which their telescopes need to be pointed to view any given star in
the night sky. Just as the Sun appears to rise in the East and set in
the West once a day, the Moon also rises and sets in this fashion, and
so do the stars.
Because the Moon revolves around the Earth about once a month, the
time between successive moonrises differs significantly from 24 hours,
the length of a day.
In turn, because the Earth revolves around the Sun once a year, and
thus the direction from the Earth to the Sun changes, while the
directions from the Earth to the distant stars do not change, the
cycle of the apparent motion of the stars around the Earth also has a
period which is not quite the same as the 24 hour average length of
the solar day."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time

The 3 basic planetary facts of shape,rotation and the time for the
planet to turn once are contained in the 24 hour/360 degree longitude
meridians yet when the kids in the English speaking world turn to the
world's largest reference site that is what will meet them.

I know all too well that nobody really knows how to take
responsibility, even for the majority who are completely indifferent
to the astronomical hoax now circulating through Wikipedia as a major
'fact',but as long as it stands we will be diminished as a race.
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