Is it a smooth ellipse?
Or is it a scalloped ellipse?
That orbit looks very round to your eye.
With respect, I can't see the orbit with my eye at all.
Posted on 07/20/2025 1:07:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Thanks. That’s really cool.
Is it a smooth ellipse?
Or is it a scalloped ellipse?
That orbit looks very round to your eye.
With respect, I can't see the orbit with my eye at all.
”The Earth continues to push the Moon away and lose a tiny bit of rotational momentum as it does this. Dunno the math, but it’s possible that the Earth will push the Moon far enough away that the Moon will be lost, at least for some period of time. That’ll be a bad crazy day, but it won’t be anytime soon.”
Just for the record.
Yes, but tHere was much more in 24.
The ellipse would look like a circle when viewed from above, only about 3% wider in the fat direction than the skinny. The size of the loops in the earth’s orbit would be about 30 one-millionths of the average size of the radii of the ellipse. The pitch of the ellipse would be about 12.37 turns per orbit around the sun, but it would never close on itself exactly, so it would simply blur the linewidth slightly.
I have no idea. But with the amount of craters there must be an incredible amount of wealth in metals, minerals, etc., from meteor and asteroid even comet hits.
The impact on the Earth’s weather will be immense. Less and less tide movement which will alter wind currents which in turn will alter our weather. For good or bad I have no idea, but it will take millions of years, so not on my list to be concerned about.
Very cool. Thanks
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