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Old 01-21-2011, 06:54 PM   #51
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Why so irritated and arrogant? I think it was just common sense.

And without looking it up. a lot considering they don't have their own light source and are just reflecting light, unless you consider a volcano on Venus a light source.

And I'm not here to give you astronomy lessons "pal". I don't even own a telescope.
It's not common sense at all. How bright something "appears" is called "apparent magnitude", as opposed to how bright something really is - "absolute magnitude".

It's an ignorant article, and your OP - especially the thread title - is equally ignorant. For once in my CP life, I'm going to have to agree with peter12.
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