Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
Its not at any lagrange points. 2002 VE68 is a quasi-satellite in a semi stable horseshoe shaped orbit. Its trapped in a 1:1 mean-motion resonance with venus so it appears to orbit venus if youre looking at it from a venusian frame of reference but it actually orbits the sun in a highly elliptical orbit. The thing goes nearly to the earths orbit and then almost mercury’s orbit. If it were a trojan it would stay pretty much inside venus’ orbital path with a bit of wandering around the lagrange point.
meh i can get down with you Debbie downers BUT you left out the most important part of the whole story, which suggests to me that you didn’t really give it a fair shot. or didn’t understand it.
This is the first Quasi Moon ever discovered IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. and their orbits are fucking cool.
tiiiiiny little detail that is worth noting in a genuine good faith TLDR. you failed! poop emoji
I’m with you OP. If they liked the story, great. If you do a tl;dr, the nerve of calling you a “debbie downer” while whining that your tl;dr was incomplete and that you did it in bad faith. Like, what the fuck? This is lemmy and is a space community, not reddit or tumblr!
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No need to be a spoil-sport, it’s an interesting read
I hate the twitter/nitter format, plus the instance is rate-limited. So OP not only saved me a click, it told me what the writing was about.
And this is not a movie plot. So, yes, OP, thanks for the info.
Technically, yes, that was all you needed to know.
But it’s still a nicely told story, and worth reading if you have a few minutes (plus the link is working now).
Nice. Thanks!
Yours was a friendlier comment, and so I appreciate it.
Except that some of us did or will enjoy reading it.
Specifically, it’s in one of the stable Lagrange points. (L4 or L5)Edit: It’s in a horseshoe orbit, not at a Lagrange point.
Its not at any lagrange points. 2002 VE68 is a quasi-satellite in a semi stable horseshoe shaped orbit. Its trapped in a 1:1 mean-motion resonance with venus so it appears to orbit venus if youre looking at it from a venusian frame of reference but it actually orbits the sun in a highly elliptical orbit. The thing goes nearly to the earths orbit and then almost mercury’s orbit. If it were a trojan it would stay pretty much inside venus’ orbital path with a bit of wandering around the lagrange point.
Whoops, you’re right! I stand corrected.
meh i can get down with you Debbie downers BUT you left out the most important part of the whole story, which suggests to me that you didn’t really give it a fair shot. or didn’t understand it.
This is the first Quasi Moon ever discovered IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. and their orbits are fucking cool.
tiiiiiny little detail that is worth noting in a genuine good faith TLDR. you failed! poop emoji
If OP is a debbie downer, then so are you, judging by the contents of your reply.
ok
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I’m with you OP. If they liked the story, great. If you do a tl;dr, the nerve of calling you a “debbie downer” while whining that your tl;dr was incomplete and that you did it in bad faith. Like, what the fuck? This is lemmy and is a space community, not reddit or tumblr!