Finder wrote:
Only 8,000 miles off after 34 years at flying 27,000 mph is Excellent!

Yes, indeed.

I doubt that we can even measure 8,000 mi at that distance anyway.

_They_ can measure to much better than that. I don't recall their
resolution, but a search of arXiv.org will surely find it. Remember they
are using the propagation of radio waves to measure it, not a series of
meter sticks laid end-to-end (:-)).


Tom Roberts