Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: StarDate: December 21: Meteors for the Solstice Message-ID: <6715@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 10:23:38 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6715 Posted: Fri Dec 21 10:23:38 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 06:15:01 EST References: <948@utastro.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 8 The local (St. Louis) National Weather Service broadcast this morning said that "Winter starts at 10:23 AM today" (that's CST). Is that precise moment the instant the Earth is closest to the Sun? (The perihelion of its orbit?) Or does that moment refer to something else, and, if so, what? Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA