Aperture 3.0.2 Time Machine Backup Question

So I recently imported my entire iPhoto Library into aperture and chose to have everything in the Aperture Library not referencing from the iPhoto Library. Either way everything went great and I'm loving it. My question has to do with when I recently backed up in Time Machine. I noticed the Time Machine backup file size was about 9gb lower then the one on my internal drive? Anyone know the reason for this? iPhoto never had any file size issues when backing up. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong here and if there was a way to get some drive space back that would be great as well.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

One other thing I noticed right away was after importing my iPhoto Library over to the Aperture Library file the file size of my Aperture Library was about 8gb larger...which is a pretty considerable difference. Anyone know why this is?
Thanks

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