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Eadie
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 Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:40 am Post subject: Have a Pleasant Perihelion |
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis#Earth_perihelion_and_aphelion Section 2.3 Earth perihelion and aphelion
At 7:48:00 UTC (= to GMT "London" time), Sunday January 5, 2020 the Earth-Moon system will be at perihelion, the closest approach to the Sun.
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Bud Brewster
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I just looked outside and noticed that the sun appears WAY closer than usual! 
Weird . . .
Hey, this would be the best day to send astronauts to land on the sun, because it's a shorter trip! (Oh . . . wait . . . they better do that at night so they won't burn up.) 
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Krel
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No matter how you look at it. It would be a short trip.
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Bud Brewster
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Yes indeed! Those astronauts would certainly go out in "a blaze of glory"!
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