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Orbit
Latest Articles & Videos
13 New Solutions to the Three-Body Problem -
It's the sort of abstract puzzle that keeps a scientist awake at night: Can you predict how three objects will orbit each other in a repeating pattern? In the 300 years since this...
Why Didn't Skydiver Burn up on Re-Entry? -
By now everyone’s heard of Felix Baumgartner and his record-breaking leap out of a balloon some 24 miles over the New Mexico desert. While the “official” definition of...
Kepler 30 Yields Clues to Orbital Chaos -
The Solar System is remarkably regular, its eight planets orbiting the Sun in the same direction in very nearly circular trajectories. Their orbits lie nearly in the same plane, which is...
More Articles
- Some Stars Lasso in Stray Planets - H.S. Center for Astrophysics
- Did Earth's Orbit Trigger Dramatic Climate Change? - Katie Lee, Cosmos
- Launching Spacecraft with Magnetic Levitation - Brian Dodson, Gizmag
- Celebrating John Glenn's Orbit: 50 Years Later - John Wilford, NYT
- Could a Large Asteroid Knock Moon Out of Orbit? - Rebecca Rosen, Atlantic
- Why Some Planets Orbit the Wrong Way - Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Science