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The Potsdam Gravity Potato (earthlymission.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe my eyes are gliding over it, but does anyone know what the actual difference is? They've got relative "+80" to "-80", but no indication of what those units are. Would I be 1 kg lighter between the highest and lowest spot or .0001 grams lighter?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Based on Wikipedia I think the unit is milligals, where a gal is 1 centimeter per second squared.

That is a bit of an odd unit where g is ~980,000 milligals.

So these changes are extremely small.

So then the total variation is all within about 0.02% of gravities normal value

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