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Article #3833Re: Bright planet in the evening sky
From: apryan
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:51
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:51
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The planet is Venus. On 1993 Jan. 13 00:32:10UT Venus was 110,183,035km (68,464,564 miles) from Earth. It can come within 40 million km (25 million miles) of Earth. Venus' orbit is the most circular of all the planets (e=0.00678). Its perihelion distance is about 107,470,000km (66,780,000 miles) and its aphelion distance is about 108,946,000 km (67,696,000 miles). As you are in the U.K. what you need to do is call the new telephone ASTRONOMY AND SPACE HOTLINE on 0891-88-1950 which will tell you what to see in the sky over the British Isles every week (full update every Sunday night but listen out for news of the discovery of new comets or novae mid-week). Calls cost 48p/min peak, 36p/min all other times. You should then be able to locate Mars and Jupiter as well as the Russian space station Mir with two men on board. All are visible to the naked eye.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!ieunet!tcdcs!vax1.tcd.ie!apryan From: apryan@vax1.tcd.ie Newsgroups: sci.astro Subject: Re: Bright planet in the evening sky Message-ID: <1993Jan13.005149.1@vax1.tcd.ie> Date: 13 Jan 93 00:51:49 GMT References: <726585130snz@cullen.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@cs.tcd.ie (NN required at ashe.cs.tcd.ie) Organization: Trinity College Dublin Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: vax1.tcd.ie