Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU!lindsay From: lindsay@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: Plantes & actions (was Re: Omni-Americans) Keywords: gravitational noise Message-ID: <1239@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> Date: 27 Mar 88 22:24:56 GMT References: <5017@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <2790@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1221@uop.edu> <1077@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <465@flatline.UUCP> <133@aplcomm.UUCP> <5331@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <1238@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> Sender: netnews@PT.CS.CMU.EDU Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 9 (This is an addendum to something I posted minutes ago. Sorry.) Since the earth's orbit is noncircular, the gravitational effect of the sun varies by 170 nano-gravities in three months. Again, the effect of the most powerful planet ( 18 nano-g in six months ) is completely dominated. -- Don lindsay@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu CMU Computer Science