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From: chaplin@keinstr.uucp (chaplin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How to tell distance of Stars
Message-ID: <1991May14.215639.320@keinstr.uucp>
Date: 14 May 91 21:56:39 GMT
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In article <17660161@hpfcdj.HP.COM> myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
>>     Uh, not trying to be picky, but you have the Doppler relation bass-
>>backwards. Things whose light is blue-shifted are moving *towards* us; the
>>light from things which are moving away is red-shifted. Around about 1920
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>OOOOOOOOPS!!!!!!!  Absolutely correct (boy, is my face red; I know it doesn't
>show up well via notes, but trust me, it's red)!
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>Bob Myers  KC0EW   HP Graphics Tech. Div.|  Opinions expressed here are not
>                   Ft. Collins, Colorado |  those of my employer or any other
>myers@fc.hp.com                          |  sentient life-form on this planet.

Aw, Bob.  You don't have to run away.  (But I bet you look blue to folks
on the west coast.)
-- 
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