To: Thatcherite
For your amusement.
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/HohmannTransferOrbit.html
I had a lunar lander game for my Trash-80 that used this equation to tell you how you were doing with your burn times and fuel. You could play with parameters before committing to a burn, but the game continued in real time, so the time you spent testing your estimates also changed the situation.
316 posted on
10/17/2005 1:19:26 PM PDT by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: js1138
Well, there is the rocket science almost done. Of course rocket engineering is much tougher .
317 posted on
10/17/2005 1:29:26 PM PDT by
Thatcherite
(Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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