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Article #7608Re: Mars Observer Update - 01/12/93
From: Thomas E. Smith
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:39
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:39
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Ron Baalke writes:
>Today the spacecraft is 50,015,515 km from Earth (31,078,200 miles)
>travelling at a velocity of 11.55 meters/second (25,829 mph). One way
>light time is approximately 167 seconds.
I was just curious, so on 12-30-92 I wrote down the info about velocity,
and distance. The speed was 9.4083 km/s, and now it's 11.55 km/s (I
assume that's supposed to be km instead of meters). I was just wondering
what the change in velocity was from. The spacecraft is coasting isn't it?
And at the moment isn't the Earth and Sun's pull greater than Mars?
Signed,
Perplexed
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