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orbital mechanics
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How do you fire someone into the Sun?
SpaceX/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University We live in changing times. While we once flippantly…
Orbital resonance − the striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits
Planets can gravitationally affect each other when their orbits line up. NASA/JPL-Caltech Chris Impey, University of Arizona Planets…