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From: Antoine Couette <antoine.m.couette@club-internet.fr>
Subject: [NavList] Re: Help with lunar distance
To: NavList@fer3.com
Date: Monday, 10 May, 2010, 9:11 AM

Dear Sir,

Unfortunately almost no time (just a few minutes now) for me to study your example more in depth ...

But I would think that Jupiter (almost on the ecliptic) is currently not an appropriate body for a Lunar : it is much too close from the Moon. With the Moon ecliptic latitude currently being around 3 or 4 degrees as I could observe this morning, all this means that the apparent Moon Jupiter topocentric distance will vary at a much lower rate than usually : it means that any Moon Jupiter Lunar by our current date can not yield any accurate knowledge of UT.

This might be an explanation.

Best Regards

Antone M. "Kermit" Couëtte

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