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Old December 29th 04, 03:17 PM
Tim Auton
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Martin Frey wrote:
Simon Capstick wrote:

Closest approach is currently estimated at 0.0003431 AU. It could be as
little as 8 Earth radii. The following page has a nice summary:


Astronmers - they just can't cope with small numbers, can they?
Finally given a measurement that would be easily (and best) expressed
in miles or kms, they go for 100 thousandths of an AU.


They could have gone for 0.00000000166 parsecs


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