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NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got an Amazing Side-Quest
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| 02/04/2017
| Rae Paoletta
Posted on 02/04/2017 4:20:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:20:04 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
If I didn’t know better Osiris-Rex looking for Trojans. This could be the opening scene of an old sword & sandal movie or porno flick!
Someone at NASA clearly had a sense of humor when they wrote that press release.
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:25:16 PM PST
by
Reily
To: BenLurkin
Seems to me that the moons gravity would cause these points in space to wobble a bit.
True?
False?
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:30:44 PM PST
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
To: BenLurkin
You will probably need Trojans, because, as some of you may already know about Lagrange, They got a lot of nice girls...
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:32:50 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: BenLurkin
NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got an Amazing Side-Quest
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:33:39 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: BenLurkin
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We have the whole planet to examine; we know what the planet is formed from.
This sounds like fake ‘science’ for someone to wrap a grant around.
Snuff it!
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:39:20 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: InterceptPoint
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:39:21 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: fhayek
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:40:53 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin; mountn man
Here's a trojan asteroid passing by....
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:42:24 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: InterceptPoint
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Obviously they would advance and retard in elliptical fashion. probably a very small ellipse.
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:42:42 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: InterceptPoint
The L4 and L5 Lagrange points are each 93 million miles from Earth. The same as the distance from the Earth to the Sun. The influence of the moon’s gravity at that distance is not very great
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:44:25 PM PST
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Proudly deplorable since 2016)
To: BenLurkin
These points are located 60 degrees ahead of and 60 degrees behind the Earth in its elliptical orbit around the Sun.So if it's on the earth's orbital path, a Lagrange point would be at the vertex of a (mostly) equilateral triangle with the earth and sun at the other vertices.
Therefore at a Lagrange point, the force from the earth's gravity would be much smaller than from the sun, and the net gravitational vector would point mostly toward the sun.
So it can't be that the gravitational forces "balance each other out" there. It must be some sort of a stable point for solar orbit.
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:47:50 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: BenLurkin
“Looking at the trojan asteroids our planet shepherds might provide a more accurate snapshot of the material our planet formed from.”
Nice sentence structure ...
Also could host long term research/mil outposts.
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:54:59 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
“from which our planet formed”
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posted on
02/04/2017 4:55:57 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: fhayek
You’ll need a 10 to get yourself in,too!
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/04/2017 5:02:59 PM PST
by
airborne
(I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
To: mountn man
Ah, the hours of my youth wasted... :)
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posted on
02/04/2017 5:10:49 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/04/2017 6:06:16 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
https://phys.org/news/2013-03-physics-duo-solutions-newtonian-three-body.html
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posted on
02/04/2017 6:22:26 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: mountn man
I wish I had the money, both US and UK, that I wasted on that game back in the 80s.
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posted on
02/04/2017 6:28:36 PM PST
by
PLMerite
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