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> [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
Thanks Ron, for the correct dates. I originally sent that email in haste as light astrological humour. Blasphemy, I know but I was trying to nudge this far loose thread back on topic. I refound the link I read that info on the prehistoric mars opposition. There was an ammended added which I clippe
At 01:10 PM 6/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
This August (2003) Mars will display an apparent diameter of 25.11 arc
seconds at a distance of 55.76 AU.
The last time Mars appeared this large to terrestrial observers was in
August 1924 when the Martian disk was 25.10 arc seconds in size. August
1845
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