I appreciated having this pointed out to me - it's fairly clear once the point is made, but I'd never really thought about it. Of course most of the time other

I appreciated having this pointed out to me - it's fairly clear once the point is made, but I'd never really thought about it. Of course most of the time other planets are over on the other side of the sun and very far away, but it's easy to just picture the school-style orbital map where everything is in a line together and closest approach = closest, period. I dunno, I thought it was neat! A slight paradigm shift in how I think about the solar system.