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Old 26-August-2006, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Gillianren View Post
Um . . . I'm confused. Why not? (And that's a way greater distance to move things.)
It's still a "third", relatively. And that is in the spirit of the current definition, since Venus is much closer (in an absolute sense) to us than some of the outer orbits which have been said to be cleared.
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