3.1.09

2009:

THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY.

Also, Twain's been dead for nearly 100 years.  Let's publish something.

SPECIFICATIONS OF THE EARTH (according to Schott)
equatorial radius: 6378.1 km
polar radius: 6356.8 km
volume: 259,875,300,000 m^3
Mass: 5.974 x 10^27 g
Age: c.4,500,000,000 years
surface gravity: 990 cm/s^2
Escape velocity: 11.18 km/s
Planet Year: 365.256 days
core temperature: 4500 deg. C (est)
Water:Land ratio: 71%:29% (est)

Driving west in the evening feels like going home.
I made the living room windows into drums all afternoon.





check out Pete Seeger's ice cream parlor chair.

No comments: