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Old 22-01-2012, 01:06 AM
Rob_K
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Thanks Liz. That would also mean that the furthest detectable part of the tail on 20 Jan was around 2.4 AU from the Sun, or over 360 million kilometres out. That's a long way, much further out than Mars' 1.66 AU from the Sun at the time, and almost half the current distance from the Sun to Jupiter (744 mk)!

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