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LUWD #0039 A Decade of Comets, Mars, comet discovery

2020-09-29
By: Donald Machholz
On: September 29, 2020

Mars will be closest to the earth on October 6, when it will be 39 million miles from the United States, and 62 million kilometersListen Now

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