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Re: [Phys-L] Falling - the tale of a simple 1st degree non-linear ODE



I’m gonna go out on a limb here and opine that a bowling ball dropped from an altitude of 220 km is unlikely to linger in the vicinity.

Now a roadrunner walking off a 220 km high cliff ... that’s a different beast.

On Jan 15, 2019, at 9:33 PM, brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

... it seems that a bowling ball dropped at Space Station altitudes (220 km) might well linger in the vicinity.

John Mallinckrodt