At 07:41 PM 12/1/01 -0800, Spike wrote:
>already knew the mass of the sun is about 2E30, so Ms/Mj = 1050
Close; 1047.39
>so square root of that is about 32, so the Sun/Jupiter L1 would
>be 32 times closer to Jupiter than [to] the sun
Cube root, I think. If so, circa 10.15 times => 0.092 of 5.2 AU = 0.48 AU,
so I was close.
*Is* it cube root?
Damien Broderick
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