Mariners 6 and 7 have been used to obtain values for the ratio of the mass of the Earth to that of the Moon which are in substantial agreement with those determined from other Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft. Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Societyby Royal Astronomical Society - 1867Full view - About this book
| Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1970 - 792 pages
...tables, 1970. Range and Doppler tracking data from Mariners 6 and 7 have been used to obtain values for the ratio of the mass of the Earth to that of the Moon which are in substantial agreement with those determined from other Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft.... | |
| United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 1962 - 566 pages
...velocity of a satellite around the earth in the frame of reference we refer to is given by (18) where a is the ratio of the mass of the earth to that of the sun. Therefore, the required change in velocity AV (inside the E-lobe) in order to capture the asteroid... | |
| K. K. Mohindroo - 1997 - 1000 pages
...He knows that the radius of the moon is about 0-27 times that of the earth. What is his estimate on the ratio of the mass of the earth to that of the moon? The acceleration due to gravity on the earth's surface is 9.8 m/s2. [Ans. 73 times the mass of... | |
| Julian L. Davis - 2000 - 416 pages
...moons of mass (l/2)m were located at C and C' in fig. 8.11. (C is the image of C about the origin.) 10. The ratio of the mass of the earth to that of the moon is 80 and the ratio of the distance of the moon from the center of the earth to the radius of... | |
| Sudha Mahesh - 2010 - 520 pages
...of coordinates £ = £ = 0. The impact radius of the Earth on that plane is: where c — m/U2, m is the ratio of the mass of the Earth to that of the Sun, U = W3 - - - 2v/a(1-e2) cosz is the unperturbed geocentric speed of the NEA in units of the heliocentric... | |
| Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen - 1922 - 700 pages
...relative to the main term in the expression for this precession is of the same order of magnitude as the ratio of the mass of the earth to that of the sun. In the considerations no regard has been paid to (he contribution to the precession arising from the... | |
| United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 1962 - 618 pages
...satellite around the earth in the frame of reference we refer to is given by 1 - r. (18) where a is the ratio of the mass of the earth to that of the sun. Therefore, the required change in velocity AV (inside the E-lobe) in order to capture the asteroid... | |
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