[Default] I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that The
Horny Goat wrote on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:18:44 -0700
in soc.history.what-if :
>On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:21:46 -0700, pyotr filipivich
> wrote:
>
>>>Consider Haumea as a model:
>>>
>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea_(dwarf_planet)
>>
>> Hmm, learned something new.
>>
>> SO the question now comes, what is the perceived surface gravity
>>on such a planet.
>
>Go to Haumea and report back and we'll both know.
Ah sorry, I've a road trip planned for later in the month, that's
all the vacation time I can afford.
>
>And yes I _DO_ know without resorting to Wiki what Haumea is and
>roughly where it is to be found (roughly twice as far from the sun as
>Neptune on a heavily angled orbit) and more or less how big it is.
Cool. So, you can be navigator? Now all we have to do is get
Herr Doktor Professor Bunsen Honeydew of Muppet Labs (A subsidiary of
Nicht-Irdisches Raum-fliedermaus Großes großes Industrielles
Konglomerat, GHMB) to make a single stage to solar orbit craft.
tschus
pyotr
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