In the Peterborough Examiner (Canada) of Feb. 13, there is a newsitem
"Spacecraft lands on asteroid". Accompanying the article, is a [NASA] photo
"taken from 3,773 feet above the asteroid's surface." One wonders: was
this 3,773 feet a [gratuitous] translation from 1,150 m or was this
particular number of feet just a coincidence? Incidentally, 1,150 m is just
over a kilometre.
Did AP have anything to do with the use of obsolete units in its news
story?
Duncan
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