Posted on 12/29/2022 1:03:25 PM PST by Red Badger
Thanks for the pings, and, uh, the sea life gif.
They chose that place just in case something went wrong.................
Blame Microsoft and Bill Gates...................
I read the book as a kid and it was great.
The movie was kinda hokey but passable.
There have been rumors for years that a remake is being planned using modern CGI and an all-star cast, but it never seems to come to fruition.
The book is fascinating if you can find a copy, get it!..............
It’s hardly an earth moon. It never gets closer to the earth than 2.2 million km, considerably outside the earth-sun Hill sphere. It orbits the sun in an orbit more eccentric (”oval”) than earth’s in nearly the same plane as the earth, and is in one-to-one orbital resonance with the earth. It’s orbital period is controlled by the earth, and the same on average, though it varies over an eighty year period going from a few days longer to a few days shorter. It’s orbit crosses earth’s orbit in two places in X-Y coordinates, though it is mostly above, i.e., north of, the earth’s orbit when it does. It poses no threat for the next 100 years, at least.
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