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Re: Local space ACK! Error in distance table!
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lugnet.space
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Date:
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Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:58:36 GMT
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At 12:00 AM 11/27/1999 , John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote:
> > Every road atlas needs a mileage chart, right? 8^) I converted the
> > right ascensions, declinations, and parallaxes into XYZ coordinates,
> > and computed the following distance table...
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> > http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~jladasky/distance_table.txt
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> Oops. I went back and plotted the positions of my converted points, and
> discovered that they DIDN'T MATCH THE IMAGE that I posted! So I
> reviewed my math, and found an error in the formulae I used to convert
> polar to rectilinear coordinates.
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> The URL listed above now has a corrected distance table! SORRY! As a
> minor bonus, I gave Proxima Centauri a separate entry, seeing as how
> it's around a quarter of a light-year away from alpha Centauri A and B.
Not a big problem. Thanks for correcting it though.
Sometime I've gotta get to my Zacktron planets section and also do
something with a space map of their territory. That image helps
TREMENDOUSLY. Thanks for everything, John!
-Tim
http://www.zacktron.com
http://www.ldraw.org
AIM: timcourtne
ICQ: 23951114
If you don't believe in Gosh, you'll go to Heck, where you'll face eternal
darnation.
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