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Re: Cosmology



----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Palmer" <palmer@SFU.CA>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Cosmology


You make me figure out Hubble's constant in unreasonable units.

75 km/s/Mpc -18 -1 -11 -1
------------------- = 2.43 x 10 s = 7.7 x 10 yr
31 x 10^18 km/Mpc

...
I rest my case, but I'd be grateful for someone to check my arithmetic.

As long as I can see, it's correct.

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