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Interesting! From the table at the end, it also turns out that the Sun (at ~1AU) is even closer to Earth, on average, than Mercury. (The Sun is almost certain
by gojomo 8y ago
Interesting!
From the table at the end, it also turns out that the Sun (at ~1AU) is even closer to Earth, on average, than Mercury.
(The Sun is almost certainly average-closest for Mercury itself, but unsure if the Sun would be average-closest for Venus – the table doesn't explicitly include the Sun.)
- gojomo 8y agoHaving had some coffee since I wrote the above, I realize that under some reasonable assumptions that substantially apply to all our solar system's inner planets, the Sun will always be closer-on-average than any "radial-neighbor", no matter how close the radii are to the sun or each other.