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Entries from June 19th, 2012

Summer Solstice and the Reason for the Seasons – June 20, 2012

June 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Cool Science, NASA, OMSI, Science, STEM

(from our friends at OMSI) For the Pacific Time Zone, summer officially begins with the summer solstice on Wednesday, June 20 at 4:09 p.m. PDT.  The earth is tilted so that the north pole is at its closest point with the sun. (Yet, the earth will be at its farthest distance from the sun, called aphelion, on July [...]

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