Re: [Phys-L] backwards units

[Chuck Britton <britton@ncssm.edu>]

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1998-073A <http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1998-073A>

Last paragraph has the numbers - 

"The Mars Surveyor '98 program spacecraft development cost 193.1 million dollars. Launch costs are estimated at 91.7 million dollars and mission operations at 42.8 million dollars."


> On May 4, 2015, at 8:08 PM, Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org> wrote:
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> On 2015, May 04, , at 11:52, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:
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> > I like to point out that getting the units wrong might 
> > cost you 328 million dollars
> >   http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/gif/m98patch.gif
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> You mean  $125 M?   
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> This one?
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> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/  
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> bc not certain he should believe CNN.  
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