(TFT) Re: Speed of New Horizons

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 17:46 -0500 2/24/09, Jay wrote:
> Thanks Mark!
>
> Okay first a question.
> I understand your working on a project that involves the curent 
> world history record holder for man-made object, speed.
> How many hexes per turn?

Current heliocentric velocity, per

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/whereis_nh.php

is 17.24 km/s.

 17.24 km   5 sec  1 hex
      ---   ----    ---------   =  66307.7 hexes/turn.
      sec   turn    0.0013 km


Dementia-nol analysis notwithstanding, I don't think of that as a 
useful number, but FWIW.
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