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Question by papiamento
Submitted on 6/11/2004
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How close would Earth have to be to Jupiter or Saturn for them to appear the same size as the sun or moon in our sky? Could planets as massive as Jupiter and Saturn have orbits that close to the sun or do Newtonian mechanics about universal gravitation preclude orbits that small for them?

Answer by kasey
Submitted on 4/12/2005
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its impossible.

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