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Time of third contact, using the Open2.net online AU calculator facility, gave me a value for the Earth-Sun distance of 149.16 million km - not too bad!
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simon
Venus is about 68 million miles from the Sun, a little over two thirds of the distance between the Sun and Earth, so the size of the silhouette in relation to the Sun disk is somewhat exaggerated.
But it does put it into some kind of perspective, especially when you see images of sunspots that are larger than Earth (quite common)
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simon
I can't rid myself of the image of a large, pasty Fag-ash Lil type character leaning against her customised Ford van with the blacked out windows, inbetween customers, pulling on a rollup.