Re: mileage

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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997 02:32:07 JAY RESPLER 

> I get 155,632 revs.  What am I doing wrong?

Nothing! As Jay and others pointed out to me the revs calculation went wrong
at this side.
I'm deeply ashamed and shall dig up my elementary school books from the cellar!

Using the correct number of revs:
total travelled distance:
155.632 * 53.248 km = 8.287.092.700 km or almost 5 milliard (billion) miles.

Although this seems quite a distance it is very small compared to the lightyear:
60*60*24*365.25*300.000=9.467.280.000.000 km

or less than 1 permille of a lightyear and only about 0.2 permille of the distance to
the sun-closest star at 4 lightyears.


Ed Cannon provided me with some URL's:

Page about many space probes:
   http://todd.lavergne.isscnsc.ibm.com/~jlong/probes.htm

Pioneer Home Page:
   http://pyroeis.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer/PNhome.html
Pioneer Status:
   http://pyroeis.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer/PNStat.html

Voyager Home Page (with weekly status, distance & velocity info.):
   http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/voyager.html


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