From scottw@datair.com Fri Sep 27 10:41:47 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: scottw@datair.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 27 Sep 2002 17:41:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 60603 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 17:41:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Sep 2002 17:41:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n11.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.66) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 17:41:46 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.138] by n11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Sep 2002 17:41:46 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:41:46 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: x3 and x4 of plini (was paroi ro mentu) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020927061015.GB24912@allusion.net> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 581 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "la_skat" X-Originating-IP: 209.119.40.73 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=80008005 X-Yahoo-Profile: la_skat --- In lojban@y..., Jordan DeLong wrote: > (btw; on a tangent: what the hell does x3 and x4 of plini mean? > Has anyone ever used them in a sentence?) > What do they *mean*? I would think x3 means the mass and the diameter, and possibly whether the planet is "terrestrial" or "jovian", how many (possibly zero) natural satellites it has, etc. "Orbital parameters" (x4) means its period, semi-major axis, eccentricity, the angle of inclination to the ecliptic, etc. How you would *use* any of this in a sentence? I have no effin' clue. mu'o mi'e skat