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Re: Jupiter's Galilean moons for longitude
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Dec 15, 14:54 -0800
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Dec 15, 14:54 -0800
Frank,
OK, your explanation looks convincing. You dispeled my doubts. My confusion was based on a trivial mistake that 1.8 days period implies fast change of the angle as seen from the Earth. Shame for me, as a mathematician:-(
Alex.
