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Most of them should be in
orbit
around something.
But galaxies are very violent places, and things can be spun out of
orbit.
So even if you flung a million of these things out of orbit, the chances that one would actually hit us is fairly remote.
About a billion miles away, here's what happens to Earth's orbit: it becomes elliptical instead of circular.
It passed directly through Earth's
orbit.
But we couldn't make sense of our images, until, six months after we got into orbit, an event occurred that many have regarded as the highlight of Cassini's investigation of Titan.
And it was a shocker, because it was everything we wanted those other pictures taken from
orbit
to be.
It's part of the spacecraft that's in
orbit
around the Sun that's rendezvoused with two planets.
In about five billion years, our sun will become a red giant, as large as the Earth's orbit, and our Earth will be kaput, and in a thousand billion years, if dark energy keeps on fueling space expansion at the present rate, you will not even be able to see as far as your toes, because everything around you expands at a rate faster than the speed of light.
I'm hoping to actually put the technology into
orbit
so we can manage the entire planet with technologies like this.
The interstellar visitor entered our solar system from above the plane of the planets, coming from the direction of the constellation Lyra, and it passed closest to the Sun on September 9th, passing inside the
orbit
of Mercury.
But the importance of the Hubble data was not because of the images, but because it extended our observations out to two and a half months from the discovery, meaning we get more positions along the orbit, which will hopefully let us figure out where 'Oumuamua came from.
Well to see, let's imagine we take the Hubble Space Telescope and we turn it around and we move it out to the
orbit
of Mars.
We'll see something like that, a slightly blurry picture of the Earth, because we're a fairly small telescope out at the
orbit
of Mars.
Here we are at the
orbit
of Uranus.
There are wobbles in the Earth's
orbit
over hundreds of thousands of years that change the climate.
The first was an assumption about the size of the Earth's
orbit.
Astronomers were assuming that the Earth's
orbit
was large relative to the distance to the stars.
Today we would draw the picture more like this, this comes from NASA, and you see the Earth's
orbit
is actually quite small.
And we now have over 200 satellites in orbit, downlinking their data to 31 ground stations we built around the planet.
Just last month, NASA announced the discovery of 517 new planets in
orbit
around nearby stars, almost doubling overnight the number of planets we know about within our galaxy.
This swarm of objects you see streaming across the sky are asteroids as they
orbit
our sun, and it's these changes and the motion and it's the dynamics of the system that allow us to build our models for our universe, to predict its future and to explain its past.
Now when we get distance, we get to see the asteroids in their natural habitat, in
orbit
around the sun.
Its
orbit
has been calculated from its motion across the sky.
And as we increase the detail of this picture, increasing the detail by factors of 10 to 100, we will be able to answer questions such as, is there evidence for planets outside the
orbit
of Neptune, to find Earth-impacting asteroids long before they're a danger, and to find out whether, maybe, our sun formed on its own or in a cluster of stars, and maybe it's this sun's stellar siblings that influenced the formation of our solar system, and maybe that's one of the reasons why solar systems like ours seem to be so rare.
We named Laika after the Soviet dog who was the first animal to
orbit
the earth.
These are five-kiloton yield bombs, about the size of small Volkswagens; it would take 800 to get into
orbit.
Afterwards, the big planets like Jupiter and Saturn, they were not in their place where they are now, and they interacted gravitationally, and they swept the whole interior of the solar system clean, and what we now know as comets ended up in something called the Kuiper Belt, which is a belt of objects beyond the
orbit
of Neptune.
We actually
orbit
the comet using something which is not normally done with spacecraft.
And, of course, it's the first satellite to go beyond the
orbit
of Jupiter on solar cells.
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