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Connect Access Card for Integrated Science
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ISBN: 9781259350412
Author: Bill W Tillery, Eldon Enger, Frederick C Ross
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12, Problem 2CQ
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The reason for not measuring the astronomical distances with standard units of distance such as kilometers or miles.

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