Re: Degrees or Arc minutes to Km's

From: Russell Eberst (eberst@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 04:55:35 EDT

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At 00:28 30/06/03 +0200, Russ wrote:
>Greetings all,
>How many Km's apart would they be if I could translate degrees into Km's?

>Russ Bessom

A quicker way to estimate the separation of two objects following in 
near-identical
orbits (NOSS, Grace, etc) is to time the interval between them. For NOSS 
2-3, it is
about 6 seconds. The two  objects are moving at about 7.3 km/sec. So their 
separation
is 6 x 7.3 (=44 km.)

Best wishes,
Russell  Eberst
55.9486N,   3.1383W,  150 feet = 46 metres above MSL

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