Natural Science

Vol.4 No.12(2012), Paper ID 25651, 4 pages

DOI:10.4236/ns.2012.412133

 

Using Polaris and the Big Dipper to approximate local standard time

 

Edwin H. Kaufman Jr, Corey R. Page, Casey R. Watson

 

Department of Mathematics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, USA;
Department of Mechanics, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Millikin University, Decatur, USA

 

Copyright © 2012 Edwin H. Kaufman Jr, Corey R. Page, Casey R. Watson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Kaufman Jr, E. , Page, C. and Watson, C. (2012) Using Polaris and the Big Dipper to approximate local standard time. Natural Science, 4, 1042-1055. doi: 10.4236/ns.2012.412133.

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