Winter Solstice 011 Traditional Cache
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The
winter solstice occurs exactly when the axial tilt of a planet's
polar hemisphere is farthest away from the star that it orbits.
Earth's maximum axial tilt to our star, the Sun, during a solstice
is 23° 26'. More evidently from high latitudes, a hemisphere's
winter solstice occurs on the shortest day and longest night of the
year, when the sun's daily maximum elevation in the sky is the
lowest. Since the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time,
other terms are often used for the day on which it occurs, such as
midwinter, the longest night or the first day of winter. The
seasonal significance of the winter solstice is in the reversal of
the gradual lengthening of nights and shortening of days. Depending
on the shift of the calendar, the winter solstice usually occurs on
December 21 or 22 each year in the Northern Hemisphere, and June 20
or 21 in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Congrats to ultimaterockhound and bossmanron on the 12am to 3am
late night frost bite caching run for the FTF.... :)(-----
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