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"They’re all wrong. NASA literature even tells us Venus is “our closest planetary neighbor,” which is true if we are talking about which planet has the closest approach to Earth but not if we want to know which planet is closest on average."

Closest approach to Earth is of course what NASA cares about since they plan trips to it. I wonder what future the writer is imagining where average distance matters.

parent brlewis 7 years ago

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