Today's issue of Nature features two papers and a news article about Pluto's big satellite Charon, with revised figures for its diameter (radius), mass, and semimajor axis from observations of a recent occultation. Naturally, these figures are now incorporated into the Solar System Satellites Table, available by email from me as a WordPerfect, Word, or PDF document--or all three if you like. Many correspondents have experienced difficulties with the Word version. Although cross-platform transmission doesn't help, I've found many things wrong with WordPerfect's WordPerfect-to-Word conversion, and I have fixed them using Word itself, so the Word version of the table should look a lot better now. You'd think the document would look the same converted from WordPerfect to Word. After all, both systems have pretty much the same features. But no-o-o-o! The raw converted document had mangled or missing superscripts, subscripts, special characters, fonts and font sizes, line and page spacing, and layout and orientation, and there were other annoying nastinesses. I finally went through the whole table manually in Word and fixed everything so that I got a proper printout using Word itself. Anyone who would like a fresh Word version of the table simply email me. It should look 100% better now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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