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Subject: Solstice =/= Earliest Sunset?
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Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 11:40:12 EST
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Subject: Solstice =/= Earliest Sunset?


One of our local (Boston) boob tube weather "personalities" made the claim that
although the winter solstice, and thus the shortest day of the year, occurs
on Dec. 21st, the date of the earliest sunset was actually last week.  Several
of us have been racking our brains trying to figure out a plausible explanation
for this alleged phenomenon, but have so far been unsuccessful.  Can anyone
out there in net.astronomy-land deny or confirm and explain this claim?

Thanks,

Burns Fisher



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