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To: libh8er

2 degrees at 12 billion miles means the antenna was pointed very roughly at a target 400 million miles away from where it should have (tan x ).


10 posted on 08/03/2023 12:51:03 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

s = r * theta where theta is in radians. Works well for small theta which in this case is 0.0349 radians.

I came up with ~432 million miles. Just a smidge off.


17 posted on 08/03/2023 1:10:18 PM PDT by fretzer
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