Consider a diffraction grating with a grating constant of 500 lines/mm. The grading is illuminated with a composite light source consisting of two distinct wavelengths of light being 666 nm and 501 nm. If a screen is placed a distance of 57 m away, what is the linear separation between the 1st order maxima of the 2 wavelengths? Express this distance in meters.

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