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Originally Posted by Mav87th
Yea i got the point that it is from me to the sun distance (or to the moon for that sake), but thats where i stop dead in the water. The distance to the sun from earth is far from 957*10 either in Km or in NM or Mi.
http://www.earthmatrix.com/extract62/mercury.html
As its seen here its 92955800 miles (to greater or lesser accuracy in the average)
Even if its a unit distance its wrong. The unit distance - according to the above webpage - is 959.62
So....where did they get the numbers from ? |
Probably mathematics... They didn't model a sun, they modelled a small image of the sun that hovers a certain distance above the Earth within the skybox. They just set it at the distance that was appropriate for the image they created.