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McGuire  I don't know if you can be of help or not, but I would
appreciate whatever you might be able to offer.  I seem to
remember an astronomy article from a l-o-n-g ago OF's Almanac
issue that described, perhaps depicted, the realistic distances
between the planets of our solar system in a way that would help
an everyday reader understand just exactly how far these
distances actually were. It was a practical description,
analogous to understanding the "distance equivalence scale" that
one sees on a wall map of a really large area; ex: 1 inch=50
miles, etc. etc. I remember the article suggesting,for instance,
that if you were in a room which represented Earth, then the
moon would be across the way where the other wall was. The
distance from Earth to Mars t