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> I remember some time ago there was someone on this newsgroup that wanted a
> videotape of the astronauts dropping a hammer and a feather on the moon
> ... they showed the tape of this experiment on this week's
> episode of "Space Age" on PBS (the episode was titled "To the Moon and
> Beyond").  Probably you can still catch some repeats of this episode ...

And fans of Mr. snarfy, the conspiracy theorist, might like to time the
drop.  It's been long enough since I saw it that I don't remember myself
how high he dropped them from; but here are some figures for 1/6 gee...

     seconds    feet    meters

        0.1     0.0     0.0
        0.2     0.1     0.0
        0.3     0.2     0.1
        0.4     0.4     0.1
        0.5     0.7     0.2
        0.6     1.0     0.3
        0.7     1.3     0.4
        0.8     1.7     0.5
        0.9     2.2     0.7
        1.0     2.7     0.8
        1.1     3.2     1.0
        1.2     3.9     1.2
        1.3     4.5     1.4
        1.4     5.3     1.6
        1.5     6.0     1.8
-- 
Mark Brader			"Fighting off all of the species which you
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 have insulted would be a full-time mission."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com			"Deja Q", ST:TNG, Richard Danus

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