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Article #34Re: Smith-Tuttle Comet a threat to earth?
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:35
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:35
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In article <mcdonald.443@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes... >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!!!!!! ??????? In your dreams, the last I heard about the speed of light is roughly 299,792 km/s. As somebody would say (?) what is a factor of 1000 between friends. One can extrapolate on this one since the shuttle is rougly doing 28,000 km/hr, is NASA taking into account the time distortion between the crew and JSC? > >Doug McDonald Igor Texas A&M University
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!darwin.sura.net!wupost!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!rigel.tamu.edu!i0c0256 From: i0c0256@rigel.tamu.edu (IGOR) Subject: Re: Smith-Tuttle Comet a threat to earth? Message-ID: <27OCT199211351840@rigel.tamu.edu> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: news@tamsun.tamu.edu (Read News) Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services References: <1754@tnc.UUCP> <1992Oct26.184231.1@cc.helsinki.fi> <STEINLY.92Oct26125854@topaz.ucsc.edu> <mcdonald.443@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:35:00 GMT Lines: 24