> > [Editor's Note: The initial computations that brought this event to light were made > by Jean Meeus of Belgium. The above distances, only very slightly refined, were > supplied to SPACE.com on Dec. 13, 2002 by orbit expert Myles Standish at NASA's Jet > Propulsion Laboratory. The "nearly 60,000 years" estimate was originally 73,000 > years and was updated on May 1, 2003 as new calculations were supplied.] Myles Standish's primary job is to maintain high-precision masses and positions of the planets in our solar system, which are then used for navigation for present and future planetary missions. Myles sits right near my office, and he is the source for most of my numbers for the upcoming Mars opposition.
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