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- From: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott)
- Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:24:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.011919.18158@leland.Stanford.EDU>, iburrell@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ian Matthew Burrell) writes:
- > This post will attempt to completely destroy the allegation that the
- > government is hiding some undefined fact about the Moon's mass or density.
- > For, if what a you say is true, the Moon must have much different mass
- > than accepted.
- >
- > First some numbers:
- > Mass of the Earth: 5.98 x 10^24 kg
- > Radius of Earth: 6.37 x 10^6 m or 6370 km
- > Mass of Moon: 7.34 x 10^22 kg
- > Radius of Moon: 1.74 x 10^6 m or 1740 km
- > Distance from Moon to Earth: 3.84 x 10^8 m or 384,000 km
- >
- > Using the equation from Newton's Law of Gravitation, a = (G*M)/R^2, the
- > acceleration due to gravity at the Earth's surface is 9.8 m/s^2 (1G) which
- > is a undeniable physical fact.
-
- Ah, but have you personally verified Newton's Law of Gravitation? After
- all, who do you think started this whole conspiracy? Can any of us say
- that we really knew Isaac Newton? Einstein started to cotton on to the
- whole thing but by that time the conspirators were too well established
- and managed to divert his attention into the bottomless quagmire of quantum
- mechanics.
-
- Oh, and you should see the pictures the Mars Observer boys are cooking up
- for encounter; marvelous stuff. The Galileo image fabrication lab had a
- little problem getting Renderman working on their Apple II+s, hence the
- HGA cover story. If they get enough pictures ready in time, that "hammering"
- maneuver will save the day. Great idea, almost as good as the VEEGA concept...
-
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- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech
- brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)
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