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To: maquiladora
The satellite has been wandering in orbit in a random path ever since

Now just where did this so-called journalist get his Ed-u-kation?

Decaying orbits I understand but there is no such thing as a "Random Orbit" as this idiot journalist declares.

5 posted on 02/08/2008 3:33:09 PM PST by prophetic
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To: prophetic

if it has a wobble because of not being deployed correctly, such as it’s solar panels only being slightly opened and uneven on each side, and with no rotation to keep it centered around it’s normal mass, then it’s inertia would cause it to wobble and throw off it’s orbit slightly each revolution that has a wobble.


22 posted on 02/08/2008 4:10:32 PM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: prophetic

If ASOC is right and this thing is in a polar orbit, then — even though the orbit is not random — the location of the landing might as well be considered random.


26 posted on 02/08/2008 4:14:31 PM PST by AZLiberty (President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
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To: prophetic
This "journalist" probably got his science education at the same school as Kristina Peterson. She wrote today's story "Rangers find live W.W. I artillery shell in Palo Alto park" in which she says the shell is 0.75 mm in diameter. That's the diameter of a fat mechanical pencil lead!

Today's reporters and editors are total ignoramuses when it comes to science, basic math, measurements, proportion and just plain common sense.

42 posted on 02/08/2008 5:20:50 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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