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From: markp@tekig1.UUCP (Mark Pease)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Trivial Pursuit Question
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 10:52:59 EDT
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[Say What!?!]

The north pole gets more sunlight, if my memory is correct, because 
the orbit of the Earth around the sun is not a circle but an ellipse.
The north pole points towards the Sun when the Earth is most distant
from the Sun. Now, we know, from Keppler (one of many spellings), that
a body in orbit will sweep out equle areas in equle time. By comparing
the areas in the Earths orbit, we should find that there is more area 
in the half of the orbit that is most distant from the sun and therefor
spends more time in that half of the orbit. 

Because the Earth spends more time away from the Sun, and the North Pole
also point more toward the Sun than the South Pole at this time, the 
North Pole gets more sunlight than the South Pole.

		 I hope that I'm correct.


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