But in the scheme of things...I mean it was a major scientific breakthrough at the time (measuring the distance from the earth to the sun which allowed them to work out the 'unit' they had been measuring all the planet distances in, if i remember correctly but now....*shurgs*. Never been a space junkie either way.
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