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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
- Message-ID: <11291@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:12:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.172600.17151@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
- >
- >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]
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- Is such an estimate really all that accurate? I have always discounted
- it since the height (not to mention the timing) of tides depend to such
- a large extent on local conditions. Is this method accurate to a factor
- of 2 given the calculational tools in Newton's day?
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