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Re: FYI: AoA's News release on MH '99 (dumb)

To: sbigelow@sprint.ca
Subject: Re: FYI: AoA's News release on MH '99 (dumb)
From: quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 07:27:57 GMT
Cc: quattro@audifans.com
Reply-To: quk@isham-research.freeserve.co.uk
Sender: owner-quattro@audifans.com

In message <019b01bef3fd$4b753300$968e6395@stephenb> "Stephen Bigelow" writes:

> Parsec: a unit of steller distance, equal to about 3.25 light years (3.08 *
> 10^16 metres), the distance at which the mean radius of the earth's orbit
> subtends an angle of one second of arc.
>
> I don't understand it either. *s*

Very useful for determining the distances of 'nearby' stars via parallax
measurements.

--
 Phil Payne
 UK Audi quattro Owners Club
 Phone: 0385 302803   Fax: 0870 0883933

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