Re: Building An Apple ][ Software Archive

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <8r2ttc$hbh$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>,
ground.ecn AppleII Librarian <apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu> wrote:
 
> In article <39D4F63C.BEFBFA64@inetnebr.com>,
> Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>
>> Frank Townsend wrote:
>>
>>> By the way, botanically tomatoes *are* fruits.  Next, you'll be telling me
>>> that the morning start is not a star!
>>
>> Well, the morning star is a planet (Mercury or Venus) but I really don't know
>> about the morning "start"!! :-)
> 
> IIRC, Venus is the "evening star", so that narrows the choices ...
 
At the moment, yes.  But before 11 June, Venus was a "morning star".
 
The reason Mercury and Venus but no other planets were called
"morning star" and "evening star" is since these planets orbit inside
the Earth's orbit, they can never appear very far away from the Sun
in the sky.  You'll never ever see them in the south at midnight, for
instance.  Usually they're seen only at and a bit after evening
twilight, or before and at morning twilight, but rarely at midnight
(and then only at high latitudes, towards the NE or NW).  Mercury can
rarely be seen outside the twilight at all.
 
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