A TIME Daily Tennis Tip: Venus Has the OrbitFrank Pellegrini
SOLAR ORBITER TO BUZZ EARTH:The European Space Agency'sSolar Orbiterspacecraft is about to fly by Earth for a gravity assist, bending its orbit toward the sun. At closest approach (Nov. 27th @ 4:30 UT), the probe will speed just 460 kilometers above the Atlantic Ocean. It'sthe riskies...
Animate Moon's Orbit Create an animation of the Moon orbiting the Earth. Animate Mercury's Orbit Create a 88 day animation of the Mercury orbiting the Sun. Animate Venus's Orbit Create a 225 day animation of the Venus orbiting the Sun. Animate Earth's Orbit Create a 365 day animati...
Famous writers will tell you of their lives and the lives of those in their orbit. That framing, however, suggests those other lives are not on their own journeys through the universe. In this Big Idea for The Day & Night Books of Mardou Fox, author Nisi Shawl follows a woman who is ...
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Ever feel like help is not, in fact, on the way? On a recent trip to Disneyland, my wife and I followed a long day at the Happiest Place on Earth trying to buy midnight snacks at CVS. I used to know how to buy things, but I guess I’ve lost the knack, because all the sel...
you'll need to exploit space-time. global positioning satellites pull this off every day, accruing an extra third-of-a-billionth of a second daily. time passes faster in orbit, because satellites are farther away from the mass of the earth. down here on the surface, the planet's mass dr...
Before 2000 BCE, theBabylonians(in today's Iraq) used a year of 12 alternating 29-day and 30-day lunar months, resulting in a 354-day year. In contrast, theMayansof Central America relied not only on the Sun and Moon but also the planet Venus to establish 260-day and 365-day calend...
Aliens arrive on Earth asking for some help from Earth monsters (Rodan, Godzilla) to fight Gidorah 1966 GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER + Some teens in Japan find a boat and go exploring, serendipity intervenes in the form of Ebirah 1967 SON OF GODZILLA + On a Pacific island, Godzilla a...
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