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To: RightWhale

I don't get it. The ISS takes 90 minutes for an orbit. Stopping a bolt dead in its tracks would mean a difference of 17,500mph between the bolt and the ISS which would work out to the 90min flight. OTOH, if both continued - the ISS at 17,500mph and the bolt at 17,498mph, wouldn't it take a year and a half for both to return to the same place of longitude?

(17500*1.5=26,250)/2=13,125 hours
/24=546.88 days
/365=1.50 yrs


77 posted on 09/12/2006 10:58:37 AM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: azhenfud

The bolt didn't stop. It has a speed of 17,502 mph for half its orbit and 17,498 the other half. Both the ISS and the bolt will return to the same node at the same time.


81 posted on 09/12/2006 11:02:37 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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