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Old July 13th 05, 11:29 PM
Jonathan Silverlight
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In message , George Dishman
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True, many people know that the axis of the Earth's
_rotation_ currently passes close to Polaris:

http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/umi-t.html

Probably somewhat fewer also know that the axis of
the Earth's _orbit_ passes close to Nu Draconis:

http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/dra-t.html


Yet another bookmark for my ridiculously large collection :-)
Thanks, George.