[time-nuts] NPR: Transit Of Venus Reveals Secrets Of Universe

[Hal Murray]

http://tinyurl.com/6q75f9a
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/05/154377259/transit-of-venus-reveals-secrets-of-un
iverse

Audio is 4 minutes.


CHIN: And from all the data that was compiled at that time [1761 and 1769], 
they estimated the Astronomical Unit was about 95 million miles, which was 
not a bad estimate.

CHIN: It provided the scale of the solar system. A couple hundred years ago 
that was the forefront of science.


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