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A comment on If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014).

Re:If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) by thanks1banks2 on Monday December 09, 2019 @01:32AM (#21740806)
I want to draw your attention to Mercury. See how far out it is from the sun. Now consider the fact that orbital cycle calculations were never summing up right with classical laws. The error was consistently repeatable. With curvature of space included, the error disappeared. Look at the distance till which the influence of the sun is, that leaves us unsatisfied with our results!
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Re:If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) by arethuza on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:01AM (#21741926)
Asimov had a great factual article based on that point: "The Planet that Wasn't"

http://geobeck.tripod.com/frontier/planet.htm

[A favourite of mine as it was the first 'adult' science article I read when I was a very young kid].

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Re:If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) by macintux on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:20AM (#21742002)
I remember seeking out the Asimov non-fiction science books at my local library when I was a teenager. Even then they were dated, but still fascinating.
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