If Venus has an angular diameter of 30 arcseconds when viewed from Earth at a particular time, how does this angular diameter compare with the typical angular diameter of the Moon?
A) 60 times smaller
B) 60 times larger
C) 1/30 as large
D) 3600 times smaller
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