• Deme@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    Usually when there’s a headline, yes. But 545 million miles is almost six times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. That is a very large distance even in this context.

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      7 months ago

      I was going to say near misses are usually classified as passing withing the orbital distance of the moon, about 225k miles, or 250k miles for convenience.