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Article #14474Re: How much global warming(GW) is our local mascon good for?
From: The Ghost In The Machine
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 03:51
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 03:51
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In sci.physics, Phineas T Puddleduck
<phineaspuddleduck@gmail.com>
wrote
on Mon, 28 May 2007 01:03:24 +0100
<phineaspuddleduck-2563B2.01032428052007@news.octanews.com>:
> In article <tkooi4-e1l.ln1@sirius.tg00suus7038.net>,
> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
>
>> Of course, he is right in that one can move Luna by
>> waving a very small amount of mass in its near vicinity.
>> The catch is that the Moon will move only a very small
>> amount; it's a conservation of momentum calculation.
>>
>> Take a 1 kg ball on a stick 1 meter in length, sticking
>> straight up from the lunar regolith. Remove the ball and
>> place it near the base of the stick. The moon has moved.
>> How much has it moved? About 1.3605 * 10^-23 m.
>>
>> It's going to take a little more than that to move the Moon to L1. ;-)
>
>
> Wonder if he got the the sticks and balls discounted for a mass purchase ;-)
>
Depends. Does he like to tinker with Tinkertoys? ;-)
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