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opposition) Mars at opposition (roughly in line with the Earth on one side of the Sun) on 13-14 June 2001. Mars is in opposition about every 26 months. In astronomy, moment at which a body in the Solar System lies opposite the Sun in the sky as seen from the Earth and crosses the meridian at about midnight. Although the inferior planets cannot come to opposition, it is the best time for observation of the superior planets as they can then be seen all night. |
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| Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? So that the man who should, for instance, go openly and knowingly in opposition to all that list would to your thinking, and indeed mine, too, of course, be an obscurantist or an absolute madman: would not he? I am well aware that it would be disingenuous to resolve indiscriminately the opposition of any set of men (merely because their situations might subject them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views. |
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