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To: MtnClimber
2 posted on
01/04/2025 11:52:54 AM PST by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
When I was in the fourth or fifth grade, they showed us a movie at school called Our Mr. Sun. Great stuff.
4 posted on
01/04/2025 11:59:37 AM PST by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: MtnClimber
thanks for this. That’s information I would have missed.
5 posted on
01/04/2025 12:00:01 PM PST by
Strict9
To: MtnClimber
It doesn’t feel like a Perihelion. It’s down right frigid.
6 posted on
01/04/2025 12:08:50 PM PST by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: MtnClimber
“...perihelion...with the Earth 147 million kilometers from the Sun.”
“...aphelion...with the Earth 152 million kilometers from the Sun.”
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It has always puzzled me as to why being 5 million kilometers
closer to the sun (3.1 million miles) seems to make no difference.
8 posted on
01/04/2025 12:22:28 PM PST by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: MtnClimber
Mars’ closest approach to Earth and opposition will be on and near the 15th of this month.
10 posted on
01/04/2025 1:49:19 PM PST by
Tom Tetroxide
(Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the son of man, who has no salvation.")
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