Re: EUVE reentry probabilities

From: Julian Grammer (support@intersight.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 07:16:54 EST

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    Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu) wrote on Wednesday, January 30, 2002
    6:12 AM
    Subject: Re: EUVE reentry probabilities
    
    [snip ...]
    >What is the percentage of the Earth's
    > surface within the tropics (+/- 23.5 degrees)?  I
    > don't know how to do that math.
    [... more snip]
    
    43.48% ignoring oblateness, equatorial bulge and any other deformities from
    a regular sphere.
    
    Regards,
    Julian.
    
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