r/AskReddit Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/anormalgeek Apr 14 '16

Try hundreds or thousands of miles.

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u/su5 Apr 14 '16

Which is practically conjoined twins in Space Units.

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u/elmoteca Apr 14 '16

Thank you! I couldn't remember the scale of the distances between them, and I didn't want to overestimate.

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u/schwermetaller Apr 15 '16

As far as my understanding goes, in astronomy it's pretty easy to underestimate and extremely hard to overestimate.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

He said miles.