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The Champ de Mars (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃ də mars]; lit. ' Field of Mars ') is a large public greenspace in Paris, France, located in the seventh arrondissement, between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast. The park is named after the Campus Martius ("Mars Field") in Rome, which was dedicated to ...
The Paris Hilton was designed by architect Pierre Dufau and was formally opened on April 21, 1966 [4] by Conrad Hilton and French Minister of Tourism Pierre Dumas.The 462-room hotel was constructed at a cost of 80 million Francs and was the 67th Hilton property. [5] It became a Pullman hotel in 2009 and joined the AccorHotels group. [6]
Extra-close oppositions of Mars happen every 15 to 17 years, when we pass between Mars and the Sun around the time of its perihelion (closest point to the Sun in orbit). The minimum distance between Earth and Mars has been declining over the years, and in 2003 the minimum distance was 55.76 million km, nearer than any such encounter in almost ...
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Mars Global Surveyor imaged the Earth and Moon on May 8, 2003, 13:00 UTC, very close to maximum angular elongation from the Sun and at a distance of 0.930 AU from Mars. The apparent magnitudes were given as −2.5 and +0.9. [8]
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Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel station (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃ də maʁs tuʁ ɛfɛl]) is a station on RER C in Paris named for the nearby Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel). The site has accommodated a total of five stations.
This is because the distance between Earth and the Sun is not fixed (it varies between 0.983 289 8912 and 1.016 710 3335 au) and, when Earth is closer to the Sun , the Sun's gravitational field is stronger and Earth is moving faster along its orbital path. As the metre is defined in terms of the second and the speed of light is constant for all ...