Re: NASA Coverup

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From: Robert Firth
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:11

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In article <11291@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:

[the mass of the moon]

>Is such an estimate really all that accurate?  I have always discounted 
>it since the height (not to mention the timing) of tides depend to such 
>a large extent on local conditions.  Is this method accurate to a factor 
>of 2 given the calculational tools in Newton's day?  

Well, Newton did the calculation, and concluded that the moon
was 1/29 as massive as the earth.  So no, he wasn't within a
factor of 2, but he admitted that better data on the tides were
required.

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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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