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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!aio!motif!tes
- From: tes@motif.uucp (Thomas E. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Mars Observer Update - 01/20/93
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.193127.7720@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Keywords: Mars Observer, JPL
- Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System)
- Organization: Software Technology Branch - NASA/Johnson Space Center
- References: <21JAN199317204961@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:31:27 GMT
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- Ron Baalke writes:
- >Today the spacecraft is 58,313,994 km (36,234,636 miles) from Earth,
- >traveling at a velocity of 12.9012 kilometers per second (28,859 miles
- >per hour) with respect to Earth. One way light time is approximately 195
- >seconds.
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- I wrote down this info on 12-30-92, and the velocity was 9.4083km/s. Is the
- acceleration due to Mars's gravitational pull, or from the Earth dropping
- away from the probe because of the Earth's circular orbit?
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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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