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- From: tes@gothamcity.uucp (Thomas E. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Mars Observer Update - 01/12/93
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.223919.23926@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Keywords: Mars Observer, JPL
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- Organization: Software Technology Branch - NASA/Johnson Space Center
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:39:19 GMT
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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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- | It's not my damn planet, understand | Tom E. Smith |
- | Monkey Boy?!! John Bigbootey | tes@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov |
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