Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Re: Tides
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:49:40 -0400
To:        <lpny_discuss@yahoogroups.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>

 Oh , damn , I apologize Blay . I thought you were dissing the
 metric system .  I didn't notice I forgot an E6 . 

 But that wasn't the computational error .


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:37:19 -0400, Blay Tarnoff wrote:
>=A0That was supposed to be a guess at what Bob was referring to=
 when he
>=A0asked whether anyone could spot his error. =A0I didn't try to=
 follow his
>=A0math, but I did notice that the distance he quoted between the=
 Earth and
>=A0the sun of 149.6 KM seemed a tad short. =A0So, I thought perhaps=
 his units
>=A0of "KM" might be the error he was referring to.
>
>=A0Blay
>
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>
>=A0WTurtleNY@aol.com wrote:
>=A0>
>=A0>=A0In a message dated 9/23/2003 11:30:03 PM Eastern Daylight=
 Time, Lists@eblay.com writes:
>=A0>
>=A0>=A0>=A0KM?
>=A0>=A0>
>=A0>=A0>=A0Bob Armstrong wrote:
>=A0>=A0>=A0>
>=A0>=A0>=A0>=A0the solar mass is 330,000 times that of the earth and=
 they are 149.6 KM apart (I assume that is center to center).=
 =A0So, the center of gravity is 146.6E6 % 330000/>/453.33/KM from=
 the center of the sun which is 1.4 million KM in diameter.
>=A0>
>=A0>=A0I'm assuming that KM means Kilometers.
>=A0>
>=A0>=A0W

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=A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864