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From: kurtzman@uscvax.UUCP (Stephen Kurtzman)
Newsgroups: net.origins,net.physics
Subject: Re: Lighter Gravity - the math
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:47:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 13:47:22 1985
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Summary: 

In article <974@oddjob.UUCP> matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) writes:
>Oooh, excellent point, Jeff!  I did the derivation another (simpler)
>way and got out an Earth-Saturn distance of 4 Saturn radii, which
>made my approximations invalid, so I did it again solving the quartic
>(with help from macsyma) and got an Earth-Saturn distance of 49.3
>megameters.  The radius of Saturn is about 60.3 megameters, so the
>Earth would have to be down in the clouds somewhere to lower our
>surface gravity at the sub-Saturn point by 500 cm/sec^2.
>
>Of course this won't stop the Velikovskians.  They're probably all
>Capricorns.						:-)
>_____________________________________________________
>Matt		University	crawford@anl-mcs.arpa
>Crawford	of Chicago	ihnp4!oddjob!matt



Since the fact that the earth orbited Saturn cannot be controverted, this
of course implies that the atmosphere of Saturn is breathable! :-)


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