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Weather Watchers

2naSalit

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3. Yes.

Reply to Permanut (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 2, 2024, 03:24 PM

Jan 2024

Can be observed by watching the path of the planets. For instance, Mercury, just yesterday, reached the farthest point in its observable elliptical journey, as we see it from earth looked like it was going backward, and is now returning to its apparent forward motion as it traverses the portion of the ellipse that bring s it a little nearer to the sun.

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