ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] It is a fortunate accident of nature that the Moon and Sun have nearly equal diameters as seen from the surface of the Earth. This concurrence produces total eclipses of the Sun of relatively short duration (typically a few minutes), and this affords a method of measuring the Sun's diameter, with ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/331421a0
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