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One of the snippets mentioned Sun->Pluto was around 665~ widths, I believe; does this mean the distance from Pluto to Proxima is 10x the width of our planetary system?

If so, that is much closer than I thought. I had always held the notion that the nearest solar system was magnitudes greater distance than our own planets (although I admit the distance to pluto from here is pretty damn enormous relative to the distance to other planets in our system).




I'm not sure where you went wrong, but your original notion was correct!

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Distance+to+Proxima+...


No, I think 6771 *665 widths is close to the truth.




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