Re: Open Letter to Glenn

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Sun, 04 Oct 1998 20:17:16 -0500

At 08:55 PM 10/4/98 EDT, David Bowman wrote:
>Regarding Glenn's question:
>> ... . Ignoring the GR effects, did I get the
>>special relativity calculation right or not? I would like to know that. :-)
>>
>>glenn
>
>Ignoring both the GR effects and the planets' rotational motions (keeping
>only the effect of the orbital motion) the relative differential time
>dilations that I get for Earth and Jupiter would cause the Earth to
>experience 0.126 sec less elapsed time over the course of a year than would
>Jupiter.

Thanks, I stand corrected, I got .098 sec less time. I feel confident your
value is correct.
glenn

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