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Subject: Re: \"What Is The Highest Venus Ever Gets?\"
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 08:54:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 08:54:24 1985
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The copy to this teaser dropped out, but the question os interesting
because it can be taken so many ways.  For instance, it could
mean:

	1)  What is the highest point "above"/"below" the plane of the
	    ecliptic that Venus gets?

	2)  (Granting that the Venerean orbit has the least eccentricity
	     of any planet) What is the Venerian aphelion?

	3)  What is the greatest surface temperature reached by Venus?

	4)  And, for those hideously Geocentric (Ptolemiac -- but we
	    went *beyond* that with Copernicus, didn't we?) types, what's
	     Venus' greatest Eastern or Western Elongation?

It would be interesting to see what the writer(s) meant.