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PeterDonis
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Ah, yes, I didn't take not of the "by telemetry" in the post I was responding to. In principle there are ways of obtaining the radial distance by measurements, but it won't be anything as simple as just computing it directly from round-trip light travel times.Orodruin said:his will not be the distance measured by the method suggested by the OP (see eg #123) - which was bouncing a light signal and measuring the round trip time - due to Shapiro delay.