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by JonInFL
Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:31 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Ceres and Vesta (APOD 22 June 2007)
Replies: 11
Views: 4058

Areas

That may very well be true--except that the area of a sphere is not equal the the area of a circle with the diameter of the sphere. If this is the level of thought that people on this forum exhibit, there's no point in wasting my time in trying to ask questions on it.
by JonInFL
Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:26 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Ceres and Vesta (APOD 22 June 2007)
Replies: 11
Views: 4058

Ceres and Vesta

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong: I was curious about the statement "...950 kilometers and 530 kilometers in diameter - about the size of Texas and Arizona." and calculated the surface area of these bodies as if they were spheres, then compared them to the area of the states as given in Wi...