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  3. From: rone@alcor.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.physics
  5. Subject: Re: Parsecs?
  6. Date: 13 Aug 1992 00:40:29 -0700
  7. Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  8. Lines: 8
  9. Message-ID: <l8k4fdINNd6m@alcor.usc.edu>
  10. References: <1992Aug12.024141.4913@utdallas.edu>> <ZOWIE.92Aug12004854@daedalus.stanford.edu> <1992Aug13.030630.3919@cco.caltech.edu>
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  12.  
  13. In article <1992Aug13.030630.3919@cco.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
  14. >Hmmm...  at the distance of one parsec, one astronomical unit subtends an
  15. >angle of one arc second.
  16.  
  17. Coincidence.  Remember, one AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun...
  18.  
  19. 5150
  20. look ma, i can nitpick too! :)
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