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Re: MARS HYBRID DESIGN II (First Draft)
At 12:39 PM 3/5/96, Brian Mansur wrote:
>Brian 12:35 PM CT 3/5/96
>>Earth orbits at around 148,800,000 km from the sun, right?
>>That's a circumference of 934,937,974 km. It does this
>>in around 365.25 days, or 31,557,600 seconds. That gives us
>>29.63 km/sec. Pretty close to the LANL value. I assumed
>>it was a perfect circle, and it's not. Okay, now let's try
>>Pluto. It orbits at 5,913,520,000 km (around 39.74 AU).
>>It revolves around the sun once every 248.54 years, or
>>7,843,325,904 seconds. The circumference of Pluto's orbit
>>is 37,155,741,978 km. That gives us 4.74 km/sec. Wow,
>>dead on to LANL's value. I must say I'm impressed,
>>especially considering the eccentricity of Pluto's orbit.
>>I assume the mean distance value is for an "equivalent circle".
>>That would explain the accuracy of my results.
>
>Brian
>So Pluto does go slower?
Yup.
Kelly
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