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This is a normal post The lagrange points are a fairly fixed distance from us though, so its relative velocity should be fairly close to 0.
Also, unless you love maths, why bother with the imperial units? Miles per second?? Who is that for?
(, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 14:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Miles per second is probably for Americans.
Millilitres per second sounds like a setting for a drip. kms-1 is more like it.
(, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 17:58, Reply)
This is a normal post One of the Mars missions fucked up because of this:
NASA was using SI units like proper engineers and scientists, except the sub-contract Lockheed Martin team, who were working in cubits or something.
The probe entered Mars atmosphere for aerobraking at about 1/3 the altitude that was planned - about 50 km up instead of the planned 220 km - and broke up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
(, Wed 29 Dec 2021, 12:48, Reply)