[meteorite-list] Entry Dynamics in Peru

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, Paul, List,

I just posted:
> The air in it weighs 14.7 pounds if you start
> at sea level, or 1200 grams...

Wrong!

Grabbing numbers from a column of numbers,
in a hurry, whoops! 1033 grams per sq. cm. is
sea level atmospheric pressure in metric.

The 1200 gram figure is the weight of a cubic
meter of dry air at sea level, in case you're
wondering...

14.7 pounds is 6.668 kg.

Now, if politicians would correct their mistakes
as fast...

Sterling
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: LITIG8NSHARK at aol.com
To: sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Entry Dynamics in Peru

In a message dated 10/4/2007 6:40:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net writes:
The air in it
weighs 14.7 pounds if you start at sea level, or 1200 grams.
Not to quibble...but I always thought that 14 pounds equaled about
6,000 plus or minus a few grams.  Have I missed something?

Best regards,

Paul Martyn
Savannah, GA






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