Submitted by starfyredragon t3_zmt3lg in askscience
Max-Phallus t1_j0gk2us wrote
Reply to comment by Alis451 in Does rotation break relativity? by starfyredragon
If anyone is interested, gravity on the IIS is still 88.33% of earth's gravity. The IIS orbits around 408KM from sea level.
Here is a PowerShell script I wrote that will calculate earth's gravity at any given altitude (if you have windows, you can open it and copy&paste it in):
function Get-GravityAtAltitude
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[double]$AltitudeKm,
[switch]$ReturnStats
)
BEGIN
{
$EarthParams = @{
MeanRadius = 6371.009 # KM
SeaLevelGravity = 9.80665 # m/s^2
}
}
PROCESS
{
$AltLevelGravity = $EarthParams['SeaLevelGravity'] * [Math]::Pow($EarthParams['MeanRadius'] / ($EarthParams['MeanRadius'] + $AltitudeKm), 2)
if($ReturnStats.IsPresent)
{
$EarthParams.Add('Altitude', $AltitudeKm)
$EarthParams.Add('AltLevelGravity', $AltLevelGravity)
$EarthParams.Add('GsAtGravity', ($AltLevelGravity / $EarthParams['SeaLevelGravity']).ToString('.00%'))
return [PsCustomObject]$EarthParams
}
else
{
return $AltLevelGravity
}
}
END {}
}
Get-GravityAtAltitude -ReturnStats -AltitudeKm 408
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