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Article #12Re: Smith-Tuttle Comet a threat to earth?
From: Aaron Wigley [Wigs]
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 11:25
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 11:25
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J. D. McDonald (mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu) wrote: : In article <STEINLY.92Oct26125854@topaz.ucsc.edu> steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes: : >Speed relative to Earth is 50 km/s : Lord Almighty! 1/6 the speed of light!!!!!! ??????? : : Doug McDonald (Just to be the first of probably many followups to this point :) Isn't the speed of light (at least last time I checked :) 2.998e08 meters per second, (~3.0e05 kilometers per second) ? Which makes 50 km/s 1/6000 the speed of light instead. The Wigs of Oz, Aaron Wigley
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!aurora.cc.monash.edu.au!ins894r From: ins894r@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Aaron Wigley [Wigs]) Subject: Re: Smith-Tuttle Comet a threat to earth? Message-ID: <1992Oct27.112520.7025@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Organization: Monash University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <mcdonald.443@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 11:25:20 GMT Lines: 15