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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The joke is that the orbit was clearly originally reported in kilometers, but the article editor "helpfully" converted it to miles and reported it in miles as default, but it makes no sense now because the same "miles" number now equals two different "kilometers" numbers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hah I didn't notice