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To: lepton

What’s the formula from mass to Gs?


115 posted on 04/25/2007 12:40:48 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
What’s the formula from mass to Gs?

Assuming no other differences, same volume and shape and 5*mass = 5Gs. however, if the size changes it roughly follows the inverse-square rule, with some minor modifications for distribution/shape and rotation effects in extreme circumstances. Above, Spunket suggests that if the picture of the planet is accurate, and that the distortion is caused by rotation effects that the rotation may reduce the subjective gravity by about 0.4Gs - which is some pretty extreme spinning.

174 posted on 04/25/2007 2:29:27 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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