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Old 30-11-2006, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Dennis
I believe this is how Romer first measured the speed of light. The Galilean moons are so far away that light takes a significant time to reach the Earth causing those apparent discrepancies.

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are we talking retrograde here
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