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Thursday, July 07, 2005

So that's why the sun looks so small ...

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids:

"APHELION: You probably haven't noticed, but the sun today looks a bit smaller than usual. That's because, this week, Earth is at its greatest distance from the sun (152 million km), a point in our planet's orbit called aphelion"

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