Pull of Stars

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Re: Pull of Stars
« Reply #30 on: January 24, 2009, 04:17:42 PM »
Hey I can post links too that show what happened. Check here:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Neptune_and_Pluto.html

And here is a diagram that shows what each of their predicted positions were and where Neptune actually was. Pretty close, especially because Neptune was also being affected by Pluto, which they didn't know yet.


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Re: Pull of Stars
« Reply #31 on: January 24, 2009, 04:26:43 PM »
I guess if an error of six hundred millions of miles in the planet's distance, of two thirds in its bulk, and of fifty-one years in its periodic time is "pretty close" than they were "pretty close".  I'm sure you lend that same generosity of spirit to the FE movement, right?
"Never think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming of the horrid little population that dwells under it." -O.W. Holmes "Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.."