Elizabeth Tasker on Nostr: Lately on my mind has been... horseshoe orbits. ARE THEY 4 REALZ? These come up all ...
Lately on my mind has been... horseshoe orbits. ARE THEY 4 REALZ?
These come up all the time in planetary science and I know IN THEORY how they work: 2 objects share an orbit (e.g. moons, or a planet & asteroid) and from the perspective of one, the other appears to move in a horseshoe, approaching and then making a U-turn.
LOOKS TOTS UNLIKELY
So I made a #blender3d animation to prove this, by the camera observing the planetary system and then chasing the planet to view from that perspective.
These come up all the time in planetary science and I know IN THEORY how they work: 2 objects share an orbit (e.g. moons, or a planet & asteroid) and from the perspective of one, the other appears to move in a horseshoe, approaching and then making a U-turn.
LOOKS TOTS UNLIKELY
So I made a #blender3d animation to prove this, by the camera observing the planetary system and then chasing the planet to view from that perspective.