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Re: DS2-Orbital Bombardment

From: Laserlight <laserlight@c...>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:20:41 -0400
Subject: Re: DS2-Orbital Bombardment

>>Secondly it rather depends if you are orbiting with or against the
planets
>rotation :). If they aren't using their own power and are against the
>rotation a 1.5 hour orbit is *very* low.

You are assuming circular orbits rather than more eccentric ellipses, I
take
it?

And is there a game-mechanics reason we need to know how high up we are?
Time interval has already been defined.  We can just say "two hundred
miles
up" or whatevr other figure anyone needs for story purposes, true?

>Andrew Martin
>Whose StarGrunt book _hasn't_ been stolen.
>Al.Bri@xtra.co.nz
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-congratulations!  quite an improvement.

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