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LTK:
It's only rocket science. You can do that yourself on your very own computer!

mustang6172:

--- Quote from: downtowneddie on 17 Feb 2015, 08:45 ---I'm watching live, on NASA TV, the docking of a Russian Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station and it amazes me how engineers have figured out orbital mechanics so precisely that a rocket can be launched from the ground, catch up with a moving target (going 17,500 mph, mind you!) some 250 miles up, do a little orbital ballet, and then dock.

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What's more amazing is that they figured this out 50 years ago.

Carl-E:
With slide rules...

Pilchard123:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

LeeC:
2 luminous spots on the dwarf planet Ceres


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/26/389245969/nasa-sees-bright-spots-on-dwarf-planet-in-our-solar-system

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