SV: [FT] Jump Limits

Channing Faunce wrote:

> How about when the gravitation of a body (the Sun for instance)
reaches
> a minimum. 

Strictly speaking, the gravitic field from a single body never *does*
reach a minimum. It creeps ever closer to zero the further out you
get... to be a true minimum, it'd have to increase again on the other
side :-/ I know what you mean, though.

Setting a specific maximum allowed strength for the gravitic field is
exactly what all the SF authors using "hyper limits" near stars and
planets do.

> Perhaps .01 G? For those of you a bit more mathamatically
> minded (and have the time) how for out would this be from the Sun?

~115 000 000 km (0.77 AU, just outside the orbit of Venus) (assuming I
got the figures right :-/ )

> The Earth?

~ 200 000 km (slightly beyond half-way to the moon)

> Jupiter?

~ 3 600 000 km

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
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