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To: inquest

It has to be a typo, at 2M miles with an orbit of 1.94 days should have read 1.94 years. Am I looking at this wrong? What say you?


76 posted on 06/13/2005 4:58:15 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (If Islam is a religion of peace, they should fire their P.R. guy!)
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To: K4Harty

Maybe they meant rotation?

A 2 day orbit would put it almost 1/2 million miles an hour (someone want to check my math?)


78 posted on 06/13/2005 4:59:57 PM PDT by m87339 (Squawk: "Plane is rough on Autoland" Response: "Autoland not installed on this equipment")
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To: K4Harty
No, it looks right to me. The earth orbits at 93 million miles. If this thing has a longer orbital period than the earth, then it would be orbiting farther out than us if it were in our solar system. While it's true that its sun is less massive than ours (2/3 less massive), that difference in mass is not enough to bring the orbital radius down from about 150 million miles (which is about where Mars is at, with a period of 1.88 years) to 2 million miles.
82 posted on 06/13/2005 5:03:50 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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