moon information!

maa32 · 09 Jan 2002, 03:55 · from whorl-v0013.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: moon information!
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 20:55:52 -0700
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All right, guys.  Finally got some real information that is pretty cool.  A=
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confluence, Green is 30,000 leagues away (every six years).  At one point,=20
someone mentions that at the moment of their comment Green is 80,000 league=
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away.  Ok here is the cool part: 30,000 leagues is 89,996 miles; 80,000=20
leagues is 239,988 miles.  The distance from the earth to the moon on avera=
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is 239,000 miles!  If we assume that Green is in a spiralling orbit around=20
Blue, coming closer and then spiralling out to some distance, pulled by som=
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forces in a very irregular orbit, but on average maintaining the same dista=
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as the original moon (before the deterioration in Severian's time that brou=
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the moon closer than 90,000 miles to the Urth!) I really think that the val=
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of 80,000 leagues (almost EXACTLY the distance from the earth to the moon n=
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is NO COINCIDENCE.
Marc Aramini

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