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Observatories are devilish things!!!The town decides to burn down the observatory to prevent a similar incident from ever happening again.
Art, I will remember the plural of AU. Thanks. c2 = a2 + b2. I am practicing with the buttons.neufer wrote:Yes, except they are Kepler's simple equations (and the plural of AU is AU).dougettinger wrote:
Continuing with your simple equations, Sitchin's proposed 10th planet could possibly have the following parameters:
(3600 years)2/3 = 235 AUs and a possible elliptical orbit could be 60 to 400 AUs. Is this assessment correct ?
Art Neuendorffer
P.S., Starship Asterisk* has wonderful buttons for subscripts and superscripts.
That is very true. Curiously, there are no integer solutions for cn = an + bn when n>2. Unfortunately, BBCode provides no mechanism for adding comments in the page margins, so I'll just have to skip the proof...dougettinger wrote:Art, I will remember the plural of AU. Thanks. c2 = a2 + b2. I am practicing with the buttons.
It's a comet, no where near enough mass to be a failed star.lou wrote:this may be the approaching brown dwarf star