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Today’s distraction

Some astrology stuff came up in social media so I waded around in that for a bit. Apparently Virgo is just my sun sign. My moon sign is Sagittarius and my ascendant sign is Gemini.

In short, I can now give astrology a little more weight and the stars credit for a very good sense of humor. 🤣
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Some kind person on stackexchange posted a table of the gravitational accelerations of all the planets on a person at the Earth's surface.

Gravitational acceleration at Earth surface due to each planet when closest to Earth (avg distance for Sun & Moon)

body .. closest to Earth(km) .. Mass (kg) . g_body (m/s^2)
Moon . . . . .. . 384.00E03 .. 7.30E22 . . . . 3.35E-05
Sun . . . . . . . 150.00E06 .. 1.99E30 . . . . 5.98E-03
Venus . . . . . . 42.00E06 . . 4.90E24 . . . . 1.88E-07
Mars . . . . .. . 78.00E06 . . 6.40E23 . . . . 7.12E-09
Jupiter . . .. . 629.00E06 . . 1.90E27 . . . . 3.25E-07
Saturn . . . . . . 1.28E09 . . 5.70E26 . . . . 2.35E-08
Uranus . . . . . . 2.73E09 . . 8.70E25 . . . . 7.90E-10
Neptune . . . .. . 4.15E09 . . 1.00E26 . . . . 3.93E-10


Gravitational acceleration of 30,000 kilo truck 50 meters away is 2.686E-4, which is almost 10X the force from the Moon, and FAR more than the force from each planet.

In American units, if that same truck (66,000 lbs) is one mile away, the acceleration is 1.04E-6, which is still FAR greater than that from Mars & Venus & the rest!

Source for table https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/13022/what-is-the-gravitational-force-felt-on-earth-from-the-other-planets-in-our-sola
JustNik · 51-55, F
@ElwoodBlues alrighty then. All I can say is that I sincerely hope you all just really love math. 😄👍
@JustNik Indeed I do!