"we could always throw rocks"

From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Mon Jan 20 1997 - 20:05:55 MST

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Damien Sullivan asks
: ... when you shoot rocks at Earth, how long will it take them
: to get there? ...

Some astronomer - Flammarion? - computed that if a satellite
is stopped dead in its tracks, the time to fall is 1/sqrt(32)
of its period. So a rock dropped at Earth from lunar distance
takes 116 hours.

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