Re: [meteorite-list] More fun with GR

: Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:57 AM To: falco...@sbcglobal.net; Matson, Rob D. Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More fun with GR Hi Rob and the other meteoroidal travelers, I'd say a good mean altitude for government work would be about half of Earth's radius

Re: [meteorite-list] More fun with GR

eidos.com> Cc: MexicoDoug <mexicod...@aol.com>; meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Thu, Jul 21, 2016 10:31 am Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More fun with GR For the satellite, it varies according to the gravity field it flies over. Technically none exists b

Re: [meteorite-list] More fun with GR

For the satellite, it varies according to the gravity field it flies over. Technically none exists because the gravity field is never constant. It dithers. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 21, 2016, at 2:01 AM, Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list wrote: Hi

[meteorite-list] More fun with GR

Hi Doug, I think you would have come up with the correct answer if I had given a more precise value for the clock slow down relative to a stationary clock in deep space: it should be 0.69693 parts per billion relative to a clock at sea-level on the earth's equator, or 60.2 microseconds per day.