Re: Pull of the Moon

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:57:52 -0300 "Roberto Takata" <rmtakata@gmail.com>
writes:
> On 4/18/06, Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com> wrote:
> > My e-mail software didn't tranlate the following sentence very 
> well:
> >
> > > and a relative
> > > Earth-Moon
> > > distance a/a0 of 0.965 +- 0.005.
> 
> a0 = 380,000 km
> 
> So a = 366,700 km



Thanks for the clarification.  Apparently the author doesn't know the
difference between what is a distance and what is a quotient of a
ratio.....

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