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Article #4667Re: Precession of Mercury's longitude of perihelion - (so called "anomaly")
From: Michael Baldwin, Bruce
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 00:41
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 00:41
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Right on cue, completely anal retentive kookdancing queen, Dickless Davie tholoon@antispam.ham the "irrelevaant" Ignoranus, whined and tholed like the antagonistic arsehole that he is: > Androcles writes: > > > Why anyone would use 100 Earth years as a measure for Mercury > > is simply amazing. > > What's allegedly amazing about it? Lots of people use the > astronomical unit as a measure for Mercury's semimajor axis, > for example. That's another unit derived from the use of > the Earth as a reference. The mass of Mercury is often > expressed in units of Earth masses. > > > Talk about confusion, > > What alleged confusion? Does the use of a solar mass for the > masses of other stars, instead of kilograms, also confuse you? > You had better get used to the fact that there are multiple > time units in use, multiple distance units in use, multiple > mass units in use, and so on. > > > 4.31 arc seconds per Earth year with Mercury's sidereal period > > of 88 Earth days and 365.25 days per year > > Older equations for the values of various astronomical parameters > used the Besselian century as the time argument. Now many of those > equations have been recast to use the Julian century instead. The > coefficients to the time arguments had to be changed for the units > to be consistent. > > > (or is it 366.25 sidereal days), > > Where did that come from? > > > the whole issue is riddled with data loss and fiddle factors. > > Nonsense. STFU, Dickless.
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X-Google-Thread: f74ae,97352882261106f9 X-Google-Thread: 102c26,b47dacc836b6fc5c,start X-Google-Thread: 1138ec,b47dacc836b6fc5c,start X-Google-Thread: 1156f6,b47dacc836b6fc5c,start X-Google-Thread: 100caf,b47dacc836b6fc5c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,gid102c26,gid1138ec,gid1156f6,gid100caf,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Michael Baldwin, Bruce" <mbbr@mighty.co.za> Newsgroups: sci.astro,rec.music.classical,comp.os.os2.advocacy,demon.local,ne.weather Subject: Re: Precession of Mercury's longitude of perihelion - (so called "anomaly") Date: 26 May 2007 17:41:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 41 Message-ID: <1180226475.390515.296710@q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: <GR71i.6812$Ch.5632@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk> <1178940879.329175.118440@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <K%d1i.32611$1J.23188@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk> <5alf7vF2nl5snU1@mid.individual.net> <biD1i.9266$085.7287@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk> <_AE1i.5717$NY3.700@trnddc03> <1179267462.507215.205070@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <2gt2i.23734$Ch.11329@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk> <464aeccc$0$8926$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.228.130.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1180226507 4448 127.0.0.1 (27 May 2007 00:41:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 00:41:47 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <464aeccc$0$8926$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 lon-cache2 (NetCache NetApp/5.5R5) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=165.228.130.12; posting-account=gfDFhQ0AAAD-2SlsgA4JCYtc0KAvRvTc