On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:37:33 -0000, Jim Logajan
wrote:


You got it right. But to the person standing on the earth trying to time
the fall, the more massive object appears to drop a tiny bit faster (but
I'm not sure the drop time difference could even be measured for most
ordinary cases).

It's really a pedantic issue unless one is dealing with objects of
comparable masses, like the perturbations of planetary orbits due to other
planets.

Ya gonna drop the marble and the bowling ball at the same time?
Counting the Earth, that's three bodies. I thought the three-body
problem was insoluble?

Don