Anyone familiar with Albedo 0.39, a 1976 album by composer Vangelis?
Watching the youtube video to revisit the titled song, how cool would it be for the system scanner to provide astronomical details in a similar manner.
The spoken lyrics to the song and the details of planet Earth:
Watching the youtube video to revisit the titled song, how cool would it be for the system scanner to provide astronomical details in a similar manner.
The spoken lyrics to the song and the details of planet Earth:
- Maximum distance from the sun: 94 million 537 thousand miles
- Minimum distance from the sun: 91 million 377 thousand miles
- Mean distance from the sun: 92 million 957 thousand and 200 miles
- Mean Orbital velocity: 66000 miles per hour
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.017
- Obliquity of the ecliptic: 23 degrees 27 minutes 8.26 seconds
- Length of the tropical year: equinox to equinox 365.24 days
- Length of the sidereal year: fixed star to fixed star 365.26 days
- Length of the mean solar day: 24 hours and 3 minutes and 56.5555 seconds at mean solar time
- Length of the mean sidereal day: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 4.091 seconds at mean sederial time
- Mass: 6600 million million million tons
- Equatorial diameter: 7927 miles
- Polar diameter: 7900 miles
- Oblateness: one 298th
- Density: 5.41
- Mean surface gravitational acceleration of the rotating earth: 32.174 feet per second per second
- Escape velocity: 7 miles per second
- Albedo: 0.39