AW, nuts! We were planning a weekend trip. :) Now it is too far to go. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 8:55:25 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Something amiss Yeah, they do have it a bit close. I emailed the reporters saying they have it at about the distance of Mars and suggesting they might want to change that to the more accurate 20 light years or 180 trillion kilometers. Clear skies, patrick On 06 Oct 2010, at 19:15, Jay Eads wrote:
Well, since the earth is 1 AU or about 93 million miles from the sun, if there is another star 120 million miles sounds like the Sun has a companion. Oh no! Perhaps Nemesis is true!
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