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21st November 2019 | 00:46

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megan

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From: Aus

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Concorde in the cruise weighed measurably less than it would have done on he surface, due to its distance from the centre of the Earth

and the latitude and direction in which it was travelling. (effect of earths rotation, known as the Eötvös effect)

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