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To: js1138; longshadow
JS1138: I really want to say something about wildly eliptical orbits. My tongue is all bloody from biting it.

longshadow: Me too!

Well I will! Wildly Eliptical placemarker! hehehehehe

222 posted on 07/03/2003 8:53:38 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer
Well now I AM lost ... how can an orbit be wildly elliptical and still be an orbit of more than one or three passes?
228 posted on 07/03/2003 8:59:23 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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To: RadioAstronomer
Those wildly elliptical orbits sound particularly uncomfortable. woo, speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down, geez, it's a wonder the earth is in one piece at all.
230 posted on 07/03/2003 9:00:50 PM PDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
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