Weighing the Earth with a sextant

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Nov 1983

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American Journal of Physics, Volume 51, Issue 11, pp. 1018-1020 (1983).

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Astrometry And Reference Systems, Moon

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This article presents a simple, but accurate, method for determining the
distance of the Moon using a cheap sextant. This result can then be used
to obtain the size of the Moon and the mass of the Earth.

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