Subj : Re: The James Webb Space Telescope
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Dec 27 2021 08:55 pm

Hi Wilfred...

 WvV> * Originally in ASTRONOMY
 WvV> * Crossposted in ASTRONET
 WvV> * Crossposted in CHAT
 WvV> Hi All,
 WvV> On 2021-12-26 13:35:05, I wrote to you:
 WvV>> It's now, a day after launch, almost 240K km from earth.
 WvV> Now after almost 2 days and 2 hours of travel it's almost 375K km from earth and it has traveled more then 25% of the distance to it's destination in space.
 WvV>> If you're interested you can follow it's journey for yourself on this
 WvV>> website:
 WvV>> https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
 WvV> Bye, Wilfred.

How can it be 25% of it's distance at day 3, when it only enters L2 in it's 29th day?

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