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> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 14:53:01 -0500
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Quickie
>
> Jim, List,
>
> Whoops!
>
> The Sun revolves around the center of our galaxy
> at about 220 km/sec which suggests a period of
> about 240,000,000 years. That&#
Ah, the wisdom of youth! If I could only reverse my accumulated clutter
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Wooddell"
To: "Meteorite-List"
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Quickie
It was science week at an elementary school.
A
there is, so there's nothing else for it to go
around."
Sterling K. Webb
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Wooddell"
To: "Meteorite-List"
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Quickie
It was science week at an elementary sc
It was science week at an elementary school.
A third grade teacher was teaching the young kids in his class about the
solar system. He came in early one day and moved all the desks to the side
of the classroom on each wall. He proceeded to set up the sun and planets
using various sized styrof
. Webb
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 2:47 AM
To: Stuart McDaniel ; James Beauchamp ; pshu...@messengersfromthecosmos.com
Cc: The List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Quickie
Pete, James, Stuart, List
Long answer to a quick question.
1. The Moon DOES rotate on its axis. If it didn't,
we on the
ow have a short list of people on this List with
nothing better to do on a Saturday night... I suppose
especially me who wrote the longest.
Sterling K. Webb
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- Original Message -
From: "Stuart McDaniel"
Beauchamp
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:31 PM
To:
Cc: The List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Quickie
I would say less. The highest density of the moon stays on the earth side
now, so the 1/r^2 magnitude of the gravity effect is maximized.
If it were rotating, the average pull would always be
I would say less. The highest density of the moon stays on the earth side now,
so the 1/r^2 magnitude of the gravity effect is maximized.
If it were rotating, the average pull would always be less than it is now.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 19, 2012, at 10:16 PM, wrote:
> I have a quetion.
>
I have a quetion.
Would the moon's effect on the tides be more or less
if the moon still had rotational spin?
And why?
Pete
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