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Posted by Peter Munn on January 14, 2008, 8:16 pm
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Leafing through alt.sci.planetary, I read David Williams's message of
Fri, 11 Jan 2008:
[Samuel, cross-posting:]
>-> | According to my calculations, Saturn passes Jupiter in its orbit once
>-> | every twenty Earth years.
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>How did you figure that out?
Presumably he used more accurate source figures. (I'm also guessing he
is not reading alt.sci.planetary to reply for himself, but I could be
wrong about that.)
>Jupiter revolves around the sun every 11
>years, roughly, and Saturn does so every 29 years.
I repeated your calculation with an extra decimal place (11.9 and 29.5,
respectively), and found Samuel is accurate to the nearest year.
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