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From: wyatt@cfa.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: AU
Message-ID: <277@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Date: Sun, 23-Nov-86 15:17:02 EST
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> 
>  Could some one tell me how far an AU
> is?
>
AU stands for Astronomical Unit, which is the mean distance from the
earth to the sun, about 93 million miles.
  
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