From: kym@kymhorsell.com
R Kym Horsell wrote:
> Norm Why wrote:
>> From Wikipedia:
>> Axial tilt of Earth: 23.43669?
>> Austroya Coordinates: 27.000?S 144.000?E
>> Highest point Mount Kosciuszko: 2,228 m (7,310 ft)
> And you claim Austroya has higher mountains than the Andes, right?
> LOL.
Of course that's just the first thing you should have thought of.
The real big difference is from grade school geography.
Only locations between 23N and 23S see the sun exactly overhead
at some time during the year.
Mt K is at 36S (the "australia coordinates" you use is probably a
location nr Alice Springs -- almost 2000 km away from Kosciuszko).
So the sun is never exactly overhead at Mt K.
There are OTOH points along the Andes exactly at 23.4S.
If you compare a location at sea level at 36S versus 23S you
find the location at 23S is 700 km closer to the sun when the sun
is "overhead" (or in the case of the 36S location as close to
overhead as it can get).
The fact the Andes go to 4 km and Mt K is only 2 km doesnt
really come into it compared with that.
Butit should have been a tip-off. :)
Finally, if you REALLY want to get picky the winter solstice
(i.e. when the S pole points as close to the center of the sun
as it can) and the perihelion (i.e. when the center of the earth
is as close to the sun as it can get) are presently 2 wks apart.
I.e. at perihelion the S pole points 13 deg away from the center
of the sun and this throws the calculations off another couple 100 km.
But a location like La Quiaca in Argentina is more than 600 km closer
to the sun at some point in the day than the top of Mt K gets
at any point during the day.
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