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by troymc 3130 days ago
For some reason, in some astrodynamics calculations, I multiplied by r^2 rather than dividing, and since r was on the order of 10^8, the answer was off by 32 orders of magnitude.

(Yes, I now know about changing the units so that the numbers aren't so big; this was before I understood all that.)