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What is the closest planet to Earth?
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
Presumably our very own moon. Otherwise they vary.
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
I varies, on average I think Mercury but Venus gets the closest.
Here's a primer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDgbVIqGADQ&t=1s
Here's a primer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDgbVIqGADQ&t=1s
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
At this moment in time, or do you mean which planet gets closest to earth during their orbits?
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
More or less, the R4 math program, answered the question.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06yhfbq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06yhfbq
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
AsleepInYorkshire wrote:What is the closest planet to Earth?
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Earth. You can't get any closer than that.
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
SteelCamel wrote:AsleepInYorkshire wrote:What is the closest planet to Earth?
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Earth. You can't get any closer than that.
I sometimes wish I couldn't
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
The Moon was a planet until after Copernicus. So the planet Moon is less than 500 years away. Is that nearer or farther than a few hundred million km?
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
9873210 wrote:The Moon was a planet until after Copernicus. So the planet Moon is less than 500 years away. Is that nearer or farther than a few hundred million km?
Much, much further according to Special Relativity.
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
Venus passes nearer than Mars but a lot less hospitable hence the interest in Mars. Mercury has a very eccentric orbit I believe so can be near or far depending on when you ask. Like Venus, Mercury is also not a nice place for a gad about.
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
Snorvey wrote:Dod101 wrote:Presumably our very own moon. Otherwise they vary.
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The moon is a satellite, not a planet. Mars is my guess.
[Edit] Video not available. Google suggests that, on average, its Mercury.
Stupid me. Thank you.
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
SteelCamel wrote:Earth. You can't get any closer than that.
That was my first thought but, not including Earth, I reckon the answer is a teapot.
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Re: What is the closest planet to Earth?
jfgw wrote:SteelCamel wrote:Earth. You can't get any closer than that.
That was my first thought but, not including Earth, I reckon the answer is a teapot.
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