{"id":237,"date":"2010-06-30T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T22:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2010-09-12T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:26:28","slug":"237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/237\/","title":{"rendered":"Goce satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Dan,<\/p>\n<p>Traveling and the email does not go through.\u00a0 Thanks for the BBC article link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8767763.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8767763.stm<\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Since the earth has a magnetic field and gravitions like to follow magnetic field lines, it makes sense that the gravitational field varies slightly over the surface of the earth.\u00a0 The article says that gravitational acceleration varies from 9.78 m\/s^2 (minimum) at the equator to 9.83 m\/s^2 (maximum) at the poles.\u00a0 Looking at a typical pattern of\u00a0magnetic field lines of a dipole magnet, one would expect a greater gravitational acceleration at the poles of the earth compared to the equator.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Dan, Traveling and the email does not go through.\u00a0 Thanks for the BBC article link: http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8767763.stm Since the earth has a magnetic field and gravitions like to follow magnetic field lines, it makes sense that the gravitational field varies slightly over the surface of the earth.\u00a0 The article says that gravitational acceleration varies from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophysics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}