You have been drafted for a very special mission on behalf of Geocaching Melbourne. Read your mission statement below.
Disclaimer: For the purists amongst you, the calculations involved don’t take into account any air or wind drag or resistance. Altitude is considered above ground level and don’t take into account variations in the level of the ground. On lat/long plain the object travels in a totally straight line. I have used the earth’s nominal “average” gravity co-efficient of 9.80665 m/sec/sec.
I also haven’t taken into account any of the following:
- The object spinning.
- Earth’s curvature
- Earth’s rotation
- Variations in temperature
- Variations of gravity at altitude
- Variations in atmospheric Pressure
- Earth’s spherical abnormalities
- Gravitational pull of other celestial objects (moon & sun)
So help me there are enough complaints about difficult puzzles in this series without me including any of the above variations.
