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- From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.172600.17151@sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:26:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sei.1992Nov9.172600.17151
- References: <4576@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <11283@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
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- In article <11283@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
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- >I liked the way you started out with Newton. Of course, the mass of the
- >moon has nothing to do with its orbital properties, making this a nice
- >diversionary tactic. Until an object actually orbited the moon so we
- >could observe its dynamics, estimates of its mass were based on models,
- >which means guesses.
-
- Nope: you can deduce the mass of the moon from the magnitude of the
- ocean tides.
-
- [I Newton: Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica,
- Book III, Prop XXXVII, Problem XVIII]
-