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Re: [ft] Orbits in Vector

From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:36:46 -0400
Subject: Re: [ft] Orbits in Vector

From: Allan Goodall <awg@sympatico.ca>

> I took the "unofficial" scale for FT (1 Movement Unit or MU =
1,000 km, 1 turn
> = 15 minutes) and used 1 gravity (g) = 10 metres per second per
second. The
> result was a calculation of 8.1 Movement Units towards a planet
at it's
> surface.
>
> Now, the surface of the earth is roughly, in this scale, 6" in
diameter.

You meant 6mu RADIUS, perhaps?	Diameter is more like 12.75mu.

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