[Blammar]

The most surprising conclusion is that Mercury is on the average closest to ANYTHING that orbits the sun, including (presumably) long-orbit comets!

[yreg]

It's totally unintuitive, but makes perfect sense once you know the answer.

[orlp]

This isn't true for two different objects in the same orbit with a small phase difference.

To be fair that arrangement is rather unstable, especially with planet-sized objects.

[mr_toad]

The whirly dirly corollary.

talk about cosmic apotheosis.