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Old 03-13-2003, 09:06 AM
irchans irchans is offline
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Default A more precise answer

The formula I gave for h was really an approximation derived using Taylor series expansion of trig functions. If we just use a computer to numerically solve the exact equations, we get

h = 401.66733241529...

for a radius of 6400 km.

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