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Re: My first Lunar
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2008 Sep 22, 10:11 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2008 Sep 22, 10:11 -0700
George Huxtable wrote: > The Moon's angular speed > through the stars changes; the lunar distance target body may misalign with > the direction of the Moon's motion; and particularly, "parallactic > retardation" may play a big part. According to my program, the topocentric lunar distance was increasing 22.2" per minute of time, and the geocentric distance increasing 35.1" per minute. These rates are 93% and 97% (respectively) of the total angular velocities of the bodies. -- I block messages that contain attachments or HTML. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
