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In article <4578@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
>   NASA  physicists.....  YOU  ARE  withholding  the truth from the American
>   People...

Oh, come now.  A conspiracy that large, held together for that long?  In
a government that couldn't suppress Watergate or Iranscam?  Come now.
This is laughable.

I also note that the conspiracy must extend to Japan, since their first
near-Moon navigation efforts, for Hiten, worked flawlessly.

>If you want  to  argue  about  the  merits  of  my  calculations...

What merits?  Just for starters, your calculations assume that the Earth
and Moon are motionless with respect to each other.  This will not yield
physically meaningful answers; the Moon's orbital motion (and thus that
of the neutral point) is *not* negligible.  Indeed, you get a better first
approximation for lunar trajectories by assuming that the Moon's mass is
zero than by assuming that its velocity is zero.
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