>> One can't help laughing at these people Jim. > >So you are laughing at the claim that the distance >to the Moon is measured to a precision better than 2 cm? > >You didn't bother to look it up, did you? > >Lunar Laser Ranging has been going on for more than 37 years now, >at several observatories in US and Europe. > http://www.csr.utexas.edu/mlrs/ > http://tau.fesg.tu-muenchen.de/~fesg/web/forschung/llr/llr.php > http://physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/apollo.html > http://www.obs-azur.fr/gemini/equipes/rdm/meo/ > >But don't believe it, Henri. >Laugh at them. >That make you look so intelligent. Paul, since the moon's radial speed wrt Earth is never very large, the use of constant c for light speed is quite OK. All I did was point out that, no matter how 'accurate' the answer, it would be impossible to actually put an accurate figure on the degree of that accuracy. |
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