Pokemon Go players have walked far enough to reach the sun from Neptune
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Niantic, the company that makes Pokémon Go, announced some amazing numbers at the Apple event Wednesday.
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John Hanke, CEO of Niantic, said at Apple's iPhone event that players have covered a whopping 4.6 billion kilometers since the game's July 6 release.
For reference, the distance from the sun to Neptune is just under 4.5 billion kilometers. Neptune is the eighth -and farthest - planet from the sun
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It took NASA probe Voyager 2 12 years to cover that distance. Pokémon Go players did it in two months.
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