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Letter: For the record

Published 17 August 2005

• As several readers have pointed out, an astronomical unit is about 149.6 million kilometres, not 156 million kilometres as we said in the graphic in “Our solar system just got bigger” (6 August, p 10). And in the same graphic the sun should have been at a focus of the elliptical orbit of 2003 UB313.

Issue no. 2513 published 20 August 2005

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