Sunsets, tall buildings and the Earth's radius

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2008-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3911v2

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Some typos are corrected and wording is improved in a couple of places

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It is shown how repeated observations of the sunset from various points up a
tall building can be used to determine the Earth's radius. The same
observations can also be used, at some latitudes, to deduce an approximate
value for the amount of atmospheric refraction at the horizon.

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