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Originally shared by Ahmed Zeeshan
How our Solar System really moves
Being a part of the Solar System, we always view it from a fixed perspective. As in, we don’t really imagine the Sun (the center of our solar system) to be moving too.
But let’s say we “zoom out” a little bit then we’ll see an extraordinary trajectory of the Sun and its planets. This GIF shows a high-speed simulation of the motion.
via reddit at: http://i.imgur.com/Z7FpC.gif
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I’ve loved this gif since it first came out. Then I saw the video it came from. It’s equally, if not moreso, awesome. However, he inaccurately referred to it as a vortex. Helical is more accurate but the animation is certainly exaggerated. There is actually a large asteroid somewhat caught up in Earth’s orbit and sometimes called Earth’s second moon. Cruithne, however, has it’s own orbit sometimes inside of Mercury’s and sometimes outside of Mars’s orbits. But its movement in relation to Earth would look a lot like what is shown here.
]]>I’ve loved this gif since it first came out. Then I saw the video it came from. It’s equally, if not moreso, awesome. However, he inaccurately referred to it as a vortex. Helical is more accurate but the animation is certainly exaggerated. There is actually a large asteroid somewhat caught up in Earth’s orbit and sometimes called Earth’s second moon. Cruithne, however, has it’s own orbit sometimes inside of Mercury’s and sometimes outside of Mars’s orbits. But its movement in relation to Earth would look a lot like what is shown here.
]]>Cruithne, it’s named? We dubbed it Enrique. But, Cruithine works too I guess.
]]>Cruithne, it’s named? We dubbed it Enrique. But, Cruithine works too I guess.
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