Earth–Sun distance changes from slippery equation to single number.
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Change history
14 September 2012
The article originally stated that under the old definition the au would shift by a thousand kilometres if calculated from the orbit of Jupiter. It would in fact change by a thousand metres. The text has been changed to reflect this.
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Brumfiel, G. The astronomical unit gets fixed. Nature (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2012.11416
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