At 02:51 22/06/2002, Jim Muth wrote:
FOTD -- June 21, 2002 (Rating 6)
Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
As I write these words, it is 9:24am EDT, the moment of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The sun is now as far north as it ever gets. Actually, the sun is not located any farther north that it always is,
True; it would be more accurate to say that Earth's subsolar point is as far North as it gets; the latitude defining the Tropic of Capricorn.
for there is no north and south in space. What has happened is that the earth has reached the point in its orbit where the north end of its axis is tilted directly toward the sun,
So the Sun's directly over the North pole? Don't you mean that the Earth's Northern axis is intersecting a line drawn through the sun perpendicular to the plane of the Earth's orbit about the sun (since the Sun's own rotational axis is irrelevant, even if it's the same)? Morgan L. Owens "I take more interest in the perihelion, anyway."