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Orbit of saturn rocket stage around the earth and moon (posted by u/oatscoop in askscience)
I did my best.
Apr 23, 2016 3:12 PM
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I did my best.
Koolst3r
This is my swamp!
hahahasrsly
Fuuuuck, I missed it the first time
Lebstanka
Who built the moon?
stressedesserts
This makes me feel very small
NirvanaNik
Good guy moon
notbrian01
"Go on, git.. GIT!" - moon
elmaze
Brrrroooooooorrrrr
Molem
Yeeeeeeey ^_^
mleouf
Dammit Moon-moon!
malfunctionm1ke
The Moon is the REASON why J002E3 was there in the first place as it was a upper stage of the Saturn V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3
majortool
Your best? I couldn't even tell that was Photoshopped until you said something.
SirSkellingtonBonerLord
So, what's that +L1 so large it has its own gravity field that's slowly, pixel by pixel, moving towards planet earth?
Jebbernaut
Is this real, like wow
JimStarluck
Nothing to worry about; just space junk from the Moon landings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3
andtheseashalltell
3 body orbital physics are such a mind-bend. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3
thoushaltnotpass
Pretty sure the moon gravity assist made the asteroid start orbiting the earth to begin with
megawackymax
I can imagine the guys at NASA looking at the screena and going "OH SHIT HERE COMES AGAIN, AAAAHHH!! OSHITOSHIT--OOH, PHEWW!!"
ginjaninjaofthenorth
This made me anxious.
Punificent1
I don't think we understand the gravity of this situation.
ProbablyNotWhatYouWantedToHearBut
The day OP's mum almost made it back to earth.
ezzmann
Nice
HowardMoonsHotpants
I have no idea what I'm looking at, but I feel sick
Acciopower
TIL L1 is so close to Earth.
MissBossyPants
Rocket Spirograph
ShadowoftheDude
Would it have even hit without the moon, though? And would it have done any harm if it had?
SupermassiveZebra
The moon gave it a boost and sent it out into apace again. And no harm would be done, just look at the craters it has already.
Maffus
I was hoping that the moon would just clothesline that fucker as soon as it got in range
Koolst3r
That's right, get your ass outa here!
blakeatwork
Best spirograph ever
Punificent1
I was thinking the same thing... except this just got real
strukef
Neil Armstrong walked on me face...
pollyjeanharvey
When you are the moon...
sonicbn
wait what happened? were we almost Armageddon'd ?
slightlybored
other comments say that was a relatively harmless rocket stage. but the moon does that though, means space junk can't get to close 1/2
slightlybored
without getting flipped about eventually, sometimes at us, but because space is massive, often away 2/2
bouron
Not for awhile. April 13th, 2029 is the important one. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/13may_2004mn4/
sootyMCbooty
it better not hit, because then my birthday would be ruined
Itsdavyjones
Well, guess I have to go to europe in 2029
AwwYissMothaFuckinProcrastination
Asteroids are nature's way of saying how's that space program going
xrufus7x
sadly defunded.
bouron
Also check this dude out. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xaW4Ol3_M1o
richgarc
NDT may be crazy smart but I've never heard him not sound like a douchey know it all. He turns me off.
bouron
Agree.
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Cattimus
Gonna build a space wall. It's gonna be beeaaauutiful
Molem
LOL
bouron
They taken our lives!!
OutrageousHemmorhoid
And he's gonna make the asteroids pay for the wall !! #asteroidstakeourjobs
fearandloathebananas
Yeah, Nasa had an oil team up on J002E3 that redirected it, but they claim that the moon did it because... top secret.
tomhark
moon tried to kill us first though.
BatmanAndCradleRobin
So did Japan, and Germany. Allies now are they not?
Kopar
It's okay. We were both pretty heated about it but things cooled down.
youngandrichandfullofsugar
Yes, but that's ancient history and now we're bros.
ParsleySage
It's like Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
MorgothTheDemonLordFormerlyKnownAsMelkor
Her name is Luna
AwwYissMothaFuckinProcrastination
"Your planets name means dirt!!!"
MadvilLord
Most of Goku's friends tried to kill him
tomhark
wow, smart group, i`m impressed.
ninjakittyboxrz
I thought it was more like an Adam-Eve thing, the moon was created from pieces of Earth.
xrufus7x
Only if Lilith got a running start and smashed into Adam head on and whatever fell off became Eve.
RoyalWithChz
Perhaps my understanding is off, but I thought an asteroid hit earth and the pieces that broke off became the moon.
xrufus7x
it was more of a planet but in this scenario Adam is Earth and Lilith is the other planet and Eve is the crusty bits that were launched off
TheLastImgurrian
The moon is Vegeta
delpharseven
No, @defender98 has the right answer. Moon was formed as a result of Theia colliding with Earth.
Akran
J002E3 is just the S-IVB third stage of a Saturn V rocket. It would almost certainly burn up on re-entry, as 11 other S-IVB's have done.
ExplainThisJoke
moon-bro's not gonna take that chance!
buttcreambandit
What is L1?
relsky
It's called a Lagrange point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point
CaptainLegot
Satellites there warn us about solar storms and observe the sunny side of the earth. DSCOVR takes pictures once every couple of hours.
buttcreambandit
That's is fucking dope
CaptainLegot
The place in space where the Earth and Sun's gravity cancel each other out.
HmmICantThinkOfACleverUsernameRightNow
Neat. I wanna go there.
CaptainLegot
There's not much to do...
HmmICantThinkOfACleverUsernameRightNow
And I suppose you wouldn't really feel any difference in space... For bragging rights, then?
luqman96
Langrangiant point?
buttcreambandit
So is there a bunch of shit just sitting there stagnant then? Or no cause of the whole an object in motion stays in motion thing
CaptainLegot
No, there are two refrigerator sized satellites there that I know of. It's actually really hard too get something to stay in that zone.
buttcreambandit
Ya I would assume so, we should make a space station there