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Orb Weaver

An elegant alphametic by Jonathan Joseph, from the October 1991 issue of Games magazine:

   VENUS
    MARS
  SATURN
+ URANUS
--------
 NEPTUNE

If each letter consistently represents a particular digit, what equation does this expression encipher?

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   20163
    4593
  358691
+ 695163
--------
 1078610

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