# The earth's degree of tilt has changed?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 25, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-earths-degree-of-tilt-has-changed/416859 "2007-08-25T02:07:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-earths-degree-of-tilt-has-changed/416859/21 "2007-08-25T19:22:31Z")

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[QUOTE=garygnu]  
I’m sure people in Washington state, for example, would have noticed not only the sun being directly overhead at noon on the summer solctice, but also the sun not setting that day, either.  
And folks in Australia might have missed the sun that same day.  
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Forgive me…

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> Munson: There’s no sun! Dr. Zharkov! It’s 8:23 in the morning and there’s no sun!  
> Zharkov: Check the angular vector of the moon!

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