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What is the term for the point at which the sun reaches it greatest distance north or south of the equator?
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Those points on the map of the sky are the "solstices".
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This occurs when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
That's called a solstice.
What is the definition of soltice?
a solstice is the day when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.
Time of year when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of earths equator?
Summer and winter
What is the point at which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or of the equator?
The points where the sun reaches the greatest distance north or south of the equator are called The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. At one time the sun was in those constellations when it reached those points. It has shifted due to precession of the poles. It will be back in them in about 20,000 years.
What is the term for point at which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
Those points on the map of the sky are the "solstices".
What type of day occurs when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice respectively.
What are the names of the times when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
Those are the solstices, two per year, when the Sun is at maximum declination.
What occurs when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or sounth of the equator?
It begins moving back toward the equator. Those occasions occur near June 21 and near December 21.
What is an solstice?
a solstice is a time when the sun reaches the point where it is lowest and highest at noon and longest and shortest day.solstice The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
The solstices. One of them is in June and the other in December, usually on the 21st of the month.
Why is it that when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator it occurs a solstice?
The 'solstices' are not events and they're not calendar dates. They are thetwo points on the map of the stars that are the farthest north and south ofthe celestial equator that the sun can ever be. The sun reaches those pointsnear June 21 and December 22 of each year,
What are the two day of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
June 21:Sun at solstice, farthest apparent distance north of terrestrial and celestial equators.December 21:Sun at solstice, farthest apparent distance south of terrestrial and celestial equators.
