Posted by Krysten on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 9:19am.
How much they miss by depends upon whether they used the right combination of alunch angle and velocity. You have said nothing about what they were.
I suspect that they want to to compute the error due to Coriolis acceleration, assuming that they calculated the target correctly for a non-rotating Earth. Let a' be the Coriolis acceleration, which depends upon latitude. Use a midflight average value of 44.3 degrees. The target error will be
(1/2)a' t^2 , where t is the time of flight in seconds.
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