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Article #4467Re: NASA Coverup
From: Robert Firth
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 17:26
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 17:26
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In article <11283@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes: >I liked the way you started out with Newton. Of course, the mass of the >moon has nothing to do with its orbital properties, making this a nice >diversionary tactic. Until an object actually orbited the moon so we >could observe its dynamics, estimates of its mass were based on models, >which means guesses. Nope: you can deduce the mass of the moon from the magnitude of the ocean tides. [I Newton: Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, Book III, Prop XXXVII, Problem XVIII]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!emory!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: NASA Coverup Message-ID: <1992Nov9.172600.17151@sei.cmu.edu> Date: 9 Nov 92 17:26:00 GMT Article-I.D.: sei.1992Nov9.172600.17151 References: <4576@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <11283@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Organization: Software Engineering Institute Lines: 13