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We return to our immediate neighborhood for our next observation, a double encounter with the two planets closest to the Sun. Venus and Mercury present a strange observing experience, and it is tempting to turn away because there is not always much to see. Don’t! Look and look again, because measuring these planets and their orbits have given us some of the fundamentals of our universe.
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Marett-Crosby, M. (2013). Nearest the Sun. In: Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6800-4_22
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