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Old 27-April-2008, 06:48 PM
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The history page for that page shows some vandalism, but you can see what the pages were. When were you accessing them?
Well, I started the thread on Keplerian orbits in July 2006 and the one on precession two months later, but I remember being disappointed that the sizes for the orbits weren't even on Wiki, especially with all the other information they had on them. Apparently, an infobox was added on Jan 10, 2007, though, so I must have worked on it again at a later date. I couldn't determine much with Neptune, so I tried Mercury instead. I looked at all of the entries from Jan 10, 2007 to April 2, 2007, which doesn't sound like much, but it seems the entries are edited many times a day, which is incredible, so it took quite a while to look through even that much. I found only a couple of entries with the values changed as I had observed, one at 20:43 on Mar 19, 2007, but changed back just a couple of minutes later, where the aphelion was changed from 69,817,079 km to 96,817,079 km and the perihelion was changed from 46,001,272 km to 46,100,272 km. Another was a day later at 11:03 on Mar 20, 2007, and changed back six minutes later, where the values were doubled to 139,634,158 km and 92,002,544 km. Some of the entries were very interesting. I learned some stuff when reading through them, such as Neptune is made of blue cheese, and that Mercury fell into a black hole in 2000. I did not know that.
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