Comments on: The earliest sunset comes before the winter solstice https://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunset-today-but-not-shortest-day/ Updates on your cosmos and world Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: What a week! – Heads UP! https://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunset-today-but-not-shortest-day/#comment-861089 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 18:42:36 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=4252#comment-861089 […] commute gets darker longer, as the Sun will rise 21 minutes later over the course of this month. An article about why this happens is at earth and […]

]]> By: Bruce D McClure https://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunset-today-but-not-shortest-day/#comment-855795 Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:20:00 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=4252#comment-855795 In reply to laurele.

Thank you Laurel! Point taken. I recently learned of another candidate for the farthest planet nicknamed “The Goblin” at https://carnegiescience.edu/news/new-extremely-distant-solar-system-object-found-during-hunt-planet-x

]]> By: laurele https://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunset-today-but-not-shortest-day/#comment-855789 Sat, 08 Dec 2018 02:59:00 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=4252#comment-855789 Great information but one correction is needed. Neptune is NOT the solar system’s farthest planet. While this subject is a matter of ongoing debate, for the many who prefer the geophysical planet definition, which counts dwarf planets as a subclass of planets, the farthest planet is either Eris or Sedna. Neptune is the farthest giant planet.

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