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April 15, 2006 17: 01 nutron: and one a.u. = the average distance from the earth to the sun - i think 2012 a.u. is about where this track is being transmitted from - funky fun!
Straight From the Crate to the Station (Music (For Robots)) 2006
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This means thatthe sun is shrinking as it loses mass (4 hydrogens @ 1 a.u. VS 1 helium at 2 a.u.).
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Forward Station is ahead of you, within twenty a.u. of your position.
Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994
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Roughly, perihelion is at about five a.u., aphelion forty or fifty thousand - ultra-cometary.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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Roughly, perihelion is at about five a.u., aphelion forty or fifty thousand - ultra-cometary.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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Forward Station is ahead of you, within twenty a.u. of your position.
Tales of Known Space Niven, Larry 1975
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Book LI, Sept. 2, B.C. 31-29 (= a.u. 725) (Events Abroad).
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Book XXXIX, B.C. 57-54 (= a.u. 700) (Happenings at Home).
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Nativity in the 41st year of Augustus, that is to say, 3 years b. c., or a.u. c.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Exiguus (the Little) who fixed our present Christian Era, laying down that Jesus Christ was born on the 25th of December, a.u. c. 753, and commencing the new era from the following year, 754.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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