Small human in big universe
Episode 52
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Audio file
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September 8th, 2017
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1 hr 2 mins
What are orbits and eclipses?
- What is an orbit? (NASA)
- What causes an orbit to happen? (Qualitative Reasoning Group)
- What is orbital mechanics? (Rocket & Space Technology)
- Orbital mechanics I (The Physics Hypertextbook)
- Heliocentrism from the Greeks to Copernicus & after (Wikipedia)
- Copernicus (Biography)
- Galileo & the controversy that moons orbited Jupiter (Wikipedia)
- Modern flat Earth societies (Wikipedia)
- The middle ages (History)
- What is the heliocentric model of the universe? (Universe Today)
- From geocentrism to heliocentrism (Futurism)
- Live tracking: Where is Halley's comet now? (The Sky Live)
- Comet trajectories: Where is Halley's comet (The Planets Today)
- Halley's comet completes an elliptical orbit around the sun every ~76 years (Wikipedia)
- Planets & stars orbit around their common centre of mass, the 'barycentre' (NASA)
- Lagrange points: Parking places in space (Space)
- Kepler's laws (One-Minute Astronomer)
- Planetary motion: The history of an idea that launched the scientific revolution (NASA)
- Does our galaxy orbit anything? (Astroquizzical)
- How do gravitational slingshots work? (Universe Today)
- Gravitational slingshot (Math Pages)
- Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft flight paths (Vimeo)
- Voyager 1 slingshot & other probes (Wikipedia)
- Do unmanned spacecraft like Voyager travel in straight lines? (Ask An Astronomer)
- What is a gravity well? (Qualitative Reasoning Group)
- Gravity wells scaled to Earth surface gravity (xkcd)
- Voyagers 1 & 2 do have thrusters (NASA)
- The Farthest: The documentary about the Voyagers we mentioned (IMDb)
- Energy relationships for satellites (The Physics Classroom)
- Why doesn't the Moon fall upon Earth? (Physics Stack Exchange)
- Why the Moon is getting further away from Earth (BBC)
- Is the Moon moving away from Earth? (Ask An Astronomer)
- Outer space is not a perfect vaccuum (Wikipedia)
- How are satellites launched into orbit? (Astronomy WA)
- The different types of orbits of satellites (Wikipedia)
- One of many satellite finder apps (iTunes)
- Does zero gravity exist in space? (Yale Scientific)
- NASA's vomit comet trains astronauts in the ways of weightlessness (Gizmodo)
- Feeling weightless in an elevator if the cable breaks (Hyperphysics)
- What is the difference between weight & mass? (Thought Co.)
- What is an eclipse? (NASA)
- Eclipse (Wikipedia)
- Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 (Wikipedia)
- What science can learn from a total solar eclipse (Cosmos)
- Here's what scientists have learned from total solar eclipses (Space)
- How are total solar eclipses used by scientists? (NASA)
- Why a total solar eclipse is such a big deal (YouTube)
- Two minutes of darkness with 20,000 strangers (FiveThirtyEight)
- 2 July, 2019 is the next total solar eclipse (Time And Date)
- The Moon's orbit & rotation (Windows 2 Universe)
- Diagram showing the Earth-Moon system (Wikipedia)
- Why future Earthlings won't see total eclipses (NPR)
- Perihelion & aphelion (Wikipedia)
- Types of solar eclipse: Partial, annular, total & hybrid (National University of Singapore)
- The diamond ring effect during a toal solar eclipse (Wikipedia)
- Solar eclipse of January 24, 1925 in New York City (Wikipedia)
- What is the umbra? (Time And Date)
- Scientists to take flight for longer views of the eclipse (The New York Times)
- Chasing the total solar eclipse from NASA’s WB-57F jets (NASA)
- When astronomers chased a total eclipse in a Concorde (Motherboard)
- NASA's best photos of the total solar eclipse of 2017 (Space)
- The Sun's diameter is ~1.392 million km (Space)
- The Sun's corona extends millions of kilometres into space (Wikipedia)
- How do computers predict eclipses? (NASA)
- What do Flat-Earthers think is going on during a solar eclipse? (IFL Science)
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