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Distance of the Horizon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2008
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The approximate rules given in this note may perhaps be new to some readers.
If an observer be at a height h above the Earth's surface, the distance of the horizon as seen by him is given by the formula
where r is the radius of the Earth.
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