To: Red Badger
“If you were stationed on Thalassa, you’d see Naiad passing above and below in a pattern that would repeat itself every four loops, as Naiad repeatedly laps its neighbour.”
It’s almost like one moon orbits the other. A moon’s moon.
To: Red Badger
3 posted on
07/10/2020 12:26:27 PM PDT by
ripnbang
("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
To: Red Badger
That’s actually pretty cool.
To: Red Badger
We are about to send our fifth? rover to Mars in a few weeks....why not to a moon of Mars or a moon of a outer planet instead?
I understand keeping the NASA budget perpetually funded and all but still..
6 posted on
07/10/2020 12:37:29 PM PDT by
mowowie
To: Red Badger
Ah-Ha!
It’s the old, ‘Boy meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Boy Wins Girl Back’ orbit! ;)
8 posted on
07/10/2020 12:50:05 PM PDT by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
To: All
9 posted on
07/10/2020 1:09:44 PM PDT by
BipolarBob
(I told myself to stop drinking but thought "why should I listen to a drunk who talks to himself")
To: Red Badger
Looks like a sine wave. Alternating current?
10 posted on
07/10/2020 1:44:42 PM PDT by
NTHockey
(My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
To: Red Badger
Naiad takes seven hours to make one revolution around Neptune. Phobos takes seven hours to make one revolution around Mars.
Coincidence? Or Russian collusion?
To: Red Badger
It’s just a recent-capture orbit. It’ll settle down in a few million years, which in geology-timescale is mere minutes.
21 posted on
03/06/2021 3:59:45 PM PST by
Kevmo
(So America gets what America deserves - - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
Naiad is driving like Tiger Woods.
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