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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Distance of horizon
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 22:40:35 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- Anyone have handy a function for figuring the distance of the
- horizon from a viewer based on the viewer's height from the
- surface?
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- This has to do with amusing my kids a bit during our next
- science discussion. Dad's got to stay ahead *some* way... :}
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