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reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 05:31 PM by Phage
reply to post by strNick


Please show us where Van Braun said the "neutral point" was 43,495 miles from the Moon's center. Perhaps you're confused by an article in Time Magazine in which the author (not Werner) said
At a point 43,495 miles from the moon, lunar gravity exerted a force equal to the gravity of the earth, then some 200,000 miles distant. Beyond that crest, lunar gravity predominated, and Apollo was on the "downhill" leg of its journey.

www.time.com...

As usual, the press didn't get it quite right. The ship was on the "downhill leg" but it was not simply because lunar gravity "dominated". The situation was a lot more complex than a simple two body calculation. There were actually 4 bodies involved (Earth, Moon, ship, and Sun) and all of them were in motion.

The many satellites which have orbited, and are orbiting the moon do so at the correct altitude and rate for a body which produces 1/6th of the Earth's gravity. There are areas of very slightly more and areas of very slightly less, but the average gravity of the Moon is 1/6th of Earth's.


[edit on 7/2/2009 by Phage]


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 05:59 PM by strNick
Originally posted by Phage
Please show us where Van Braun said the "neutral point" was 43,495 miles from the Moon's center.

In the 1969 edition of History of Rocketry & Space Travel by Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III, the following statement is made concerning Apollo 11:
"The approach to the Moon was so precise that the mid-
course correction scheduled for 8:26 a.m. (EDT) on the 19th was canceled. At a distance of 43,495 miles from the Moon, Apollo 11 passed the so-called "neutral" point, beyond which the Lunar gravitational field dominated that of Earth. Consequently, the spacecraft, which had been gradually losing speed on its long coast away from Earth, now began to accelerate."

This is from:
John A. Eisele, Astrodynamics, Rockets, Satellites, and Space Travel, (Washington: The National Book Company of America, 1967), p. 350

So press did get it right.

Also, re-watch tapes from Apollo missions and you will see how astronauts and physical objects (like rover) act in a 64% if not 70% or 80% gravity.

If you work out the inverse-square law for the "old" neutral point - 24 000 miles from the center of the Moon - you get one-sixth of Earth's gravity -- so the formula is working as it should regardless of the Sun, Earth and other bodies.

Don't forget you are on a conspiracy site, there is a massive cover-up concerning the moon going on. The only best data is the old one.

Regarding Apollo: I cant' specify where this quote from, but here it is:
"Houston report the instant at which we leave the lunar sphere of influence, This means simply that despite the fact we are only thirty-four thousand nautical miles from the moon and still 174 000 away from the earth, the earth's pull has become dominant and the mathematical equations now recognize this fact."

[edit on 2/7/2009 by strNick]
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