{"id":1293,"date":"2003-08-28T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/28\/relative-proximity\/"},"modified":"2003-08-28T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2003-08-28T15:40:15","slug":"relative-proximity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/28\/relative-proximity\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative Proximity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone who has even considered the possibility of Earthly
\n events being influenced by the heavens will take pause this week to consider
\n that Mars and Earth are closer right now than they have been at any time
\n since the dawn of human history.<\/p>\n

Mars is usually about 140 million miles away from Earth, but on Wednesday
\n its orbit brought it about 34.6 million miles away, reaching the closest
\n point at 5:46 a.m. EDT. The planet will not be so close to Earth again
\n until 2287. Don’t wait up.<\/p>\n

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