probable distance from Urth to Bleen

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 02 Dec 2002, 19:09 · from urth-v0212.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) probable distance from Urth to Bleen
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:09:13 -0700
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Well ... that's still rather more than the couple of dozen LY
I thought of ... it seems then that Urth's red sun probably
is _not_ particualrly visible from the Bleen system.

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> Subject: RE: (urth) probable distance from Urth to Bleen
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> Blattid wants new numbers.  Okay!  A 10:1 time dilation=3D20
> suggests somewhere between .98 c and .99 c, I reckon.
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>                OBJECTIVE   SUBJECTIVE
> LEG    RATE      TIME         TIME      DISTANCE
> Boost  0.01 g  100 years    80 years      0.5 light years
> Glide  0 g     700 years    70 years    686.0 light years
> Boost  0.01 g  100 years    80 years      0.5 light years
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> TOTAL          900 years   230 years    687.0 light years
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