#Orbit

IFLScience

IFLScience

How many planets orbit the Sun? If you said 8, you are wrong. If you said 9 you are even wronger and need to accept that Pluto is no longer

Brian Ketcham

CoachKetcham

How to turn off your water if a pipe breaks. Out at the street, in your valve box, is your meter. There is a cut off valve on both sides

Rosie Sherry ☁️

rosiesherry

Community building frameworks, what ones are missing? Community Canvashttps://community-canvas.org/ CMX Community Strategy Canvashttps://cmxhub.com/the-cmx-community-strategy-canvas/ Community Onionhttps://www.slideshare.net/tsfalls/k

Andrew M. Webb

AndrewM_Webb

Let's ride a Martian space elevator—from Pavonis Mons to areostationary orbit!The left hand side looks down on the north pole, and the ellipse shows at each moment the free-fall trajectory

Ryan Rubenzahl

RyanRubenzahl

My first first-author paper is now on @arxiv! (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09371 )We found that WASP-107b, an exoplanet the size of Jupiter but just 1/10th its mass, is orbiting its star backwards in a

Markus Schiller

RocketSchiller

Interesting questions, thank you. But there seems to be a misconception on what makes a FOBS.As the name says, it is a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, meaning it has to

Robby Russell

robbyrussell

In December, I signed up for @OrbitModel after having a short chat with @dzello. Some of the data in there is quite fascinating. As an open-source maintainer for @ohmyzsh, it

Daniel Estévez

ea4gpz

Today at 15:45 UTC @HopeMarsMission will be performing its Mars orbit insertion burn. Here are some technical details about this manoeuvre. Thread... The spacecraft would arrive to periapsis with a

Jo Pitesky

friedsky

25 years ago today, the Galileo spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter and its probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere.Here's a story the mission you've probably never heard. Orbit insertion is always a

Andrew M. Webb

AndrewM_Webb

An animation showing how rockets get to orbit, with details in the thread 1/(Animation at 10x real time) The dot on the LHS shows the position of the rocket. The

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armyeojin

why LOOΠΔ’s name is so brilliant - an updated thread for orbits and curious non-orbits alike! i made a thread on this in 2017 and it occasionally gets positive attention

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

TOI-178 is a star with a weird planetary system. It has six planets, and the outer five all orbit the star in a repeating pattern like music from a music

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread (longish): Why was Orion seen by Ancient Greeks as a "the greatest hunter" armed with a cudgel (club)? And why do Bulgarians call Orion "cudgels (clubs)" and why do

The Other Chris

TotherChris

Quick thread on what the UK means by establishing UK Space Command and launching their own rocket by 2022 for context. It's no secret that the UK is heavily involved

kilgore trout, back in some form

KT_So_It_Goes

you can sense the bubbling panic setting in amongst MAGApundit world that no matter what they throw out there stuff like obamagate and biden’s mental health and social media moderation

UtpalG

UtpalGautam5

So it was today in 2013 that ISRO started a journey that would end up truly putting it on global stage...Dear Friends on 5th Nov,2013 we launched the Mars Orbiter

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