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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
Try using the "code /code" command for tables. It's supposed to print everything like an old courier typewriter:
Code:
Mass (Earth = 1) Torque (Jupiter = 1) Barycenter displacement (Jupiter = 1)
Sun 333,000 147,000
Moon 0.0123 326,000
Mercury 0.04 0.018 0.00001
Max. Mean Min
Venus 0.82 17 0.363 0.071 0.0003
Mars 0.11 0.821 0.049 0.003 0.0001
Jupiter 318 2.28 1.00 0.52 1.00
Saturn 95 0.048 0.548
Uranus 15 0.0009 0.169
Neptune 17 0.0003 0.312
but it still takes some fiddling, and so it's still a pain . . . . but at least it's possible to get things to line up using spaces rather than underlines. |
Warren, thanks for your technical advice on putting tables into the message box.
I continue to stand by my argument that the frequency of our torque pulses is of no significant importance in analyzing the precessional response of a gyroscope. To repeat, for all of our readers including the OP: If I am not mistaken, the gyro does not rebound and oscillate in response to a momentary pulse. It simply nutates and precesses a small amount and then stops in a new position when the pulse subsides. A sustained series of such pulses eventually will nudge it around a complete revolution, and if the steps on the next cycle do not line up with those of the previous cycle, it is no big deal that I can see.
When I said that Venus "packs a wallop", I was only comparing it to Jupiter's component. It still is tiny compared with what the Sun and the Moon are doing all the time. I would predict only a vanishingly small amount of nutation from Venus and virtually no measurable pulsating effect from the other planets.