Before we dive in, let’s do a quick review to appreciate what it actually means for an object to be in orbit. As Isaac Newton’s famous first law of motion states, an object in motion will stay in ...
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Why does Pluto have such a weird orbit?
Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...
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What Is Low Earth Orbit, and What Goes There?
According to NASA, a low Earth orbit (singular) is any orbital trajectory that stays within 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) of Earth's surface. There's also a practical inner boundary to LEO space ...
Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.
Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread out over the entire Earth’s inhabited areas. Although still a large number, it is absolutely ...
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Interstellar visitors like comet 3I/ATLAS are the most common objects in the Milky Way: 'There's almost always one within the solar system'
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...
The Chinese weather satellite Fengyun 1C was deliberately destroyed by China in an anti-satellite weapon test in 2007 and peppered low-Earth orbit with an estimated 3,000 pieces of shrapnel. In 2012, ...
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