[FOTZeiss] Astronomical Unit Measure Redefined
Glenn A. Walsh
siderostat1991 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 18 15:40:22 EDT 2012
At a recent meeting of the IAU in Beijing, China, members unanimously voted to redefine the astronomical unit, or AU, which has long served as the fundamental unit of distance between objects in the solar system.
http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/09/astronomical-unit-measure-redefined.html
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Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,
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