We Know This NASA Bumper Sticker Is Clever...[Pic]. But we`re just not up on our rocket science and astrophysics enough to get the joke. Any geniuses out there?
Monday, February 15, 2010 7:29:17 AM
Ok so G is a constant of proportionality for gravitational pulls between 2 bodies (universal gravitation constant), M and m are the masses of the 2 bodies, R i would assume is the distance between the 2 bodies.
The other side of the equation seems to contain the mass of 1 body and its velocity, so i would assume this equation is what u need to solve in order to put a satelite in a stable orbit around the earth, or maybe to calculate wich distances from the earth can be used as stable orbits for satelites.