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From: naiman@pegasus.UUCP (Ephrayim J. Naiman)
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Subject: Re: \"What Is The Highest Venus Ever Gets?\"
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 12:54:39 EST
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<munch, munch>

> 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.

How about the brightest (highest intensity/brightness) it gets.
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