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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
- Keywords: More sources 43595 mile figure
- Message-ID: <11285@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 22:40:28 GMT
- References: <4601@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
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- In article <4601@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
- >
- > I've been getting a lot of E-mail flak about my NASA coverup postings.
-
- > 2. The figures given by Time or Von Braun are typos or mistakes.
- >
- > 3. The figures given by Time or Von Braun confuse miles with kilometers.
-
- The most likely explanation. Calculation with the canonical values,
- which give the surface gravity of the moon to be about 1/6 that of
- earth, give the force balance point to be about 38,000 km from the
- center of the moon. Since the spacecraft does not fly straight up
- to a stationary target, but rather leads it, the difference between
- 38 and 43 could be due to having to take the actual trajectory into
- account in the calculation.
-
- The other possibility is that someone divided the distance to the moon by 6.
-
- > 4. The explanation for the apparent lack of jumping ability of the
- > astronauts is that the suits were as heavy as claimed , and simple
- > judicious caution on their part prevented more spectacular leaping.
-
- Not heavy, inflexible. Remember, they are inflated in a vacuum and all
- joints must be airtight. Not exactly the thing to perform gymnastics in;
- remember Shepards terrible golf swing? Anyway, it is not the height but
- the length of time in flight that counts. The time-to-height ratio tells
- you g, and that ratio was much longer (hence g lower) than on earth.
-
- This is the best empirical evidence, along with the orbital period of
- the Apollo command module. Quoting from articles in the popular press
- is not the same as objective scientific evidence. The numbers about
- the command module orbit are out there, why don't you track them down
- and give us a follow up report.
-
- > I believe that the direct quotation from the July 25,1969 Time magazine
- > article would be helpful here:
- >
- > "At a point 43,495 from the moon, lunar gravity exerted a force [on the
- > spacecraft] equal to the gravity of the Earth , then some 200,000 miles
- > distant."
-
- Well, the numbers do add up. Which is not to say that the reporter got
- a value in kilometers, misunderstood it, then subtracted it from the
- distance to the moon to put the distances in perspective. I would be
- more likely to trust numbers in a monograph by von Braun.
-
- > In "Project Apollo: Man to the Moon" by Thomas J. Alexander (Harper and
- > Row , 1964 ) ,the author states:
-
- This book is copyrighted back when we were still having trouble hitting
- the moon. One might question its reliability. It could also be the
- case that Time got its info from this book!
-
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