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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by Intralexical on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @04:28PM (#39375691)
> and it should have the same angular size from Earth as the angular size of the Sun.

Technically you need a bit more than that, for its umbra to block out the entire photosphere over the entire Earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_lines_to_circles#Outer...

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