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To: SubMareener

Unfortunately, the Earth has a few things that can cause instability in such a system. The two main ones are, it is not a perfect sphere and has gravity wells which cause in track motion, and the Moon does not orbit on the equatorial plane which will cause crosstrack motion.


15 posted on 09/02/2005 7:18:41 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer

Always nice to have an expert in these things present.


18 posted on 09/02/2005 7:32:35 AM PDT by FOG724 (RINOS - they are not better than leftists, they ARE leftists.)
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