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Message Subject Here's what a brown dwarf would do to the solar system on a 3600 year orbit...
Poster Handle Dr. Astro
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Dr. Astro. Hello . I have a question for you. Has NASA updated the distances between planets lately?
 Quoting: clapon


Occasionally NASA will re-analyze the astrometric data to squeeze a little more accuracy out of the orbital determinations for the sake of a mission to a planet to try to hit it with their probe as accurately as possible, but most of this involves careful calibration of very old astrometric data from the pre-digital era, though when a probe arrives they can get even better accuracy using telemetry than can be achieved by optical means. They don't specifically update the "distances" per se.
 
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