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Re: Pull of the Moon



On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Phil Bigelow wrote: 
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.....


I forgot a link

 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000RvGeo..38...37W