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Mercury is closer to Earth than Venus on average, say researchers
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
Three US-based researchers from NASA, US Army and Los Alamos National Laboratory have shared a new ideology, saying that Mercury is closest to the Earth and every other planet in the Solar System, based on average distance. The researchers further wrote that due to some "carelessness, ambiguity, or groupthink, science popularisers have disseminated information based on a flawed assumption".
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