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Old August 21st, 2003, 05:15 PM
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Default Re: Calculating a planet\'s mass & gravitational pull
DOH! That's pretty much how NASA missed Mars with the Last mission. Or maybe they hit Mars, but they certainly didn't get into orbit as desired. It was a unit conVersion error.

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