Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / July 2005

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-date: Sat. 31.07.05  16:49 sent.

planet-10 distance 145e11 metres, not equal to #exact feet.

I wrote the distance of new discovery- Planet Ten.

14.5 billion km
=14.5 x10^9 x 10^3 m
= 145e11 metres, ok.

I turned it upside down (umop ap!sdn) and got the following:

1.4.5 April Fools' day.
'welsh', 'willowy' and 'tremelo.'

Book now for pleasure excursions!

It is not an exact number of feet, (1 ft = 12*2.54 cm).
Because there are certainly a few centimetres left over.

Planet 10 measured at 97 AU (ninety-seven times
mean Earth-Sun distance. Astronomical Units. )

The following figure shows why EArth is further

from (opposite massive SuN) than EVANESCent fleeting
planet VEnus.  (mnemonic.)

      VE
SN c   x             ) EA

Simply explained, Sun orbits closer to COMBINED barycentre
CENTRE OF MASS,       [ . ],
and Earth orbits farther away.. opposite Sun, (   ...   ).

yours sincerely,

/  Don S.  McDonald  (PG. 332 Wellington, New Zealand)