Calculating a planet's mass & gravitational pull

[jimbob]

right, so 6.67300 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2 could be written as:

6.673 x 10^-11 m^3/kg*s^2

or

0.00000000006673 m^3/kg*s^2

I like to put the breaks in every 1000 so I usually write this:

0.00 000 000 006 673

This, as IF said, is quite different than:

-0.00 000 000 006 673

I hope that this is helpful, and isn't construde as beating a dead horse

[ August 21, 2003, 04:31: Message edited by: jimbob ]