Another case of resistance to metric units from NASA. Below is my reply including the quotes from NASA's press release to which I was referring.
Bill Hooper Member, US Metric Association www.metric.org ======================== Would it kill you to let us know what those figures are in metric in addition to (or preferably instead of) King George's Olde English measures? You [NASA] wrote, in RELEASE : 11-079 - NASA'S MESSENGER Spacecraft Begins Historic Orbit Around Mercury > ... slowing the spacecraft by 1,929 miles per hour ... The rendezvous took > place about 96 million miles from Earth. > ... through its 4.9-billion-mile journey. What's wrong with: ... slowing the spacecraft by 3104 km/h ... The rendezvous took place about 154 million kilometres from Earth. ... through its 7.9-billion-kilometre journey. or even simpler ... slowing the spacecraft by 3.104 Mm/h ... The rendezvous took place about 154 Gm from Earth. ... through its 7.9-Tm journey. where Mm = megametres (1 Mm = 1000 km) and Gm = gigametres (1 Gm = 1 000 Mm) and Tm = terrametres (1 Tm = 1000 Gm)
