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The Sidereal Day: Using Your Wristwatch and Observations of the Night

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The Sidereal Day: Using your wristwatch and observations of the night sky over the course of a few weeks, how can you demonstrate to a friend that 24 hours cannot be the true rotation period of the Earth (often called the sidereal day)? What assumptions do you make in this argument?


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