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submitted 2 weeks ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] tiny_hedgehog@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

“The object is currently about 90.5 astronomical units (AU) away from us, or roughly 90 times as far from Earth as the sun is.”

This sentence pissed me off so much and I stopped reading after it.

It is 90.5 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is from the Sun. Why’d you have to go and change the frame of reference to Earth?

[–] AlbinoPython@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, they said "roughly".

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Like, give or take one AU, throughout the year.

[–] tiny_hedgehog@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago

Fair, but annoying to the pendantic.

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