Can An Astronaut Orbit The Space Station?
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The space station masses over 400 tons, so can an astronaut orbit this? And what does this question have to do with supernova? We can use Universe Sandbox 2 to simulate how the forces of gravity work down to small scales, but also how they interact in more complcated ways than most people imagine. http://universesandbox.com/
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you make brain hurt!!
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Great video. Nicely done.
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what if your orbit's plane is parallel to the earth's surface instead of perpedicular? that way there would be a smaller difference in distance from the earth during any part of the orbit. in fact, it should be 0.
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die, not dice.
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well put together video scott id recommend "sixty symbols" and "deepskyvideos" really interesting channels from physicist. you should add them to your recommended channels.
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dont know if im doing the maths right but if you wanted a 75m r you wold have to have the ISS at an alt of 266 million 321 thousand 643 km?
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Hey, Scott, what are your thoughts on diamond batteries, using nuclear waste, that have recently been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol ?
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This is probably the most intelligent comment section.
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Whats the background music? Its sounds just so... soothing.
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Given that we put objects into orbit around the Moon, and the Moon orbits the Earth, the answer should be "yes."
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shouldn't the rocket be orbiting the tardis I mean it has so infinitely much more mass
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Awesome Video. It threw my mind into space!
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Fascinating. Cheers Scott.
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I read one time something along the lines of "walking your dog the gravity of Saturn has a greater influence than the gravity of the dog." It it's true that's a pretty profound statement about mass and gravity fields.
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Nice video. I am a fan of Orbiter Space Flight Simulator so I know all about it.
I now how separate objects automatically fly in different directions when being in LEO. So I already guessed that the answer would be that it's impossible to orbit the ISS in reality before I watched the video.
For the same reason it's totally impossible to have any stable orbit around Phobos or even around Deimos. The gravitational field of Mars is simply to large.
Another thing to notice is that orbiting objects experience rotational effects because of the tidal effects. This is the "Gravity-gradient torque" thing that can be enabled in the Orbiter Space Flight Simulator to demonstrate it. -
Are there moons that have moons?
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the police public phone is the tardis in Dr who
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You mean fakestation
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the space station would have to be as big as a moon or ultra dense beyond any material that we can access (an astronaut could orbit around Thors hammer for example) or
be using some kind of magnetic tractor beam thingy, and orbits are
affected by nearby bodies, so assuming your space station is orbiting a
planets, i would say no...
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