Surveying the solar system by measuring angles and times: from the solar density to the gravitational constant

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2004-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0412134v1

Eur. J. Phys. 25, p.605 (2004)

Physics

Physics Education

12 pges, one figure

Scientific paper

10.1088/0143-0807/25/5/003

A surprisingly large amount of information on our solar system can be gained from simple measurements of the apparent angular diameters of the sun and the moon. This information includes the average density of the sun, the distance between earth and moon, the radius of the moon, and the gravitational constant. In this note it is described how these and other quantities can be obtained by simple earthbound measurements of angles and times only, without using any explicit information on distances between celestial bodies. The pedagogical and historical aspects of these results are also discussed briefly.

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