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Re:NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever by chias on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:45PM (#29569171)
It was meant to be 6×10^6 -- as a quick soundness check, the sun's radius is significantly more than 75 km (636 / 8.5) -- though I agree it would probably have been more reasonable to just write "6 million km"
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