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Old 29-June-2005, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by George
Wow. You dug deeper than could have hoped. Doesn't this surprise you. It did me. I'll add it to the Bullet thread. [I had come up with about 38x in angular area increase using mean orbital values.]
I'm going to ask a question.

With all that change in area, and its shifting phases (ignoring the times when it is very close (a solar diameter) to the Sun), how many magnitudes does the apparent brightness of Venus vary?
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