{"id":7439,"date":"2024-03-13T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2024-03-13T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T18:29:50","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-seventy-three-independent-confirmation-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/13\/twenty-twenty-four-day-seventy-three-independent-confirmation-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four day seventy-three]: independent confirmation at last"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At last! Thanks to Bing, I found an online calculator whose numbers confirm the calculation I did on my own for the interplanetary distances from my story &#8220;Shadows of Titanium Rain&#8221;!   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.31.15-PM-488x800.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7446\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.31.15-PM-488x800.png 488w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.31.15-PM-244x400.png 244w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.31.15-PM-768x1260.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.31.15-PM-936x1536.png 936w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.31.15-PM-640x1050.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.31.15-PM.png 1006w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[ from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcalc.com\/wiki\/l1-l2-lagrange-points\">https:\/\/www.vcalc.com\/wiki\/l1-l2-lagrange-points<\/a> based on data from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WASP-121\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WASP-121<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is VERY close to the numbers I got from doing this in Mathematica based on the equations from (as I recall) the NASA page <a href=\"https:\/\/map.gsfc.nasa.gov\/ContentMedia\/lagrange.pdf\">https:\/\/map.gsfc.nasa.gov\/ContentMedia\/lagrange.pdf<\/a> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.42.41-PM-600x469.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.42.41-PM-600x469.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.42.41-PM-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.42.41-PM-768x600.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.42.41-PM-1536x1201.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.42.41-PM-2048x1601.png 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-9.42.41-PM-640x500.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AND, despite a good bit of reading [ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Orbital-Mechanics-Foundation-Richard-Madonna\/dp\/0894640100\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Orbital-Mechanics-Foundation-Richard-Madonna\/dp\/0894640100<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Orbital-Motion\/Roy\/p\/book\/9781138406285\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Orbital-Motion\/Roy\/p\/book\/9781138406285<\/a> ] I was not able to find a ready source which gave me a simple formula without solving a bunch of equations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the calculator gave the same result that I got earlier on my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SO! Failaka is a quarter million kilometers from Tylos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s my story and I&#8217;m sticking to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last! 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