NASA is wrong about what planet is closest to Earth, according to a research paper published by three scientists.
Tom Stockman, Gabriel Monroe and Samuel Cordner published their findings in Physics Today, where they claimed Mercury was, in fact, closer.As it turns out, by some phenomenon of carelessness, ambiguity, or groupthink, science popularisers have disseminated information based on a flawed assumption about the average distance between planets.
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