On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Mark Hartwell wrote: > and while we're this far off topic .... > > IF there was a man made satellite in synchronous orbit around the moon > (lunosynch?) wouldn't it be at the earth-moon distance ? (as the moon > keeps the same face towards the earth) No. If the Moon had the same mass as the Earth that would be the case (but then the Moon wouldn't be at the distance it is). As it is only 1/81 as massive, the orbit would be a lot closer. I work out the selenosynchronous (?) orbit to be about 93000 km from the Moon's center. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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