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== Distance to the Sun ==
===Distance according to NASA===
The astronomical unit is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun and approximately equal to 150 million kilometres (93 million miles) or 8.3 light-minutes. The actual distance from Earth to the Sun varies by about 3% as Earth orbits the Sun, from a maximum "aphelion" (The word aphelion is coined from two Greek words, ‘Apo’ which means far and “Helion” which is a Greek god for the sun) to a minimum "perihelion" (The word perihelion is coined from two Greek words, ‘peri’ which means near and ‘Helios’ which is the Greek god for the sun) and back again once each year. The astronomical unit was originally conceived as the average of Earth's aphelion and perihelion; however, since 2012 it has been defined as exactly 149597870700 m.
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===Distance according to observation===
[[File:11311719 10205489470907683 2007035302 n.jpg|right|220px|Crepuscular rays pointing to a small and local sun]]
There are several theories about the relative size and distance of the Sun and Moon all with their points of evidence and points of contention. Researchers throughout the ages have used sextants and plane trigonometry attempting to make such calculations, usually concluding the Sun and Moon both to be only about 32 miles in diameter and less than a few thousand miles from Earth. Perhaps the least plausible model, certainly the most exaggerated and imaginative, is the reigning heliocentric theory claiming the Sun to be a whopping 865,374 miles in diameter, 92,955,807 miles from the Earth, and the Moon 2,159 miles in diameter, 238,900 miles from the Earth. Heliocentrists’ astronomical figures always sound perfectly precise, but they have historically been notorious for regularly and drastically changing them to suit their various models. For instance, in his time Copernicus calculated the Sun’s distance from Earth to be 3,391,200 miles. The next century Johannes Kepler decided it was actually 12,376,800 miles away.
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-Thomas Winship, “Zetetic Cosmogeny”
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Measuring with sextants and calculating with plane trigonometry both the Sun and Moon figure to be only about 32 miles in diameter and approximately 3,000 miles away.
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The subtle change in temperature is only possible if the source of light or heat (sun) is near us. If the sun was really 93 million miles away, the temperature on earth where the sun shines will have uniform temperature for the most part with maybe a little variation in dusk and dawn nothing quite like how we observe now.
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