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Comment by kragen

2 years ago

interesting, looks like an effort to improve the precision resulted in a factor of 1000 error! `help moondist_max` shows me considerably less precise values:

    sundist                 1.0000010178 au # mean earth-sun distance
    moondist                3.844e8 m       # mean earth-moon distance
    sundist_near            1.471e11 m      # earth-sun distance at perihelion
    sundist_far             1.521e11 m      # earth-sun distance at aphelion
    moondist_min            3.564e8 m       # approximate least distance at
                                            #    perigee 1901-2300
    moondist_max            4.067e8 m       # approximate greatest distance at
                                            #    apogee 1901-2300

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