ASTROCOHORS CLUB Departments
SciShow Space: Cruithne, the Asteroid With a Horseshoe Orbit
Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Go to https://NordVPN.com/SPACE to get 75% off a 3 year plan and use code SPACE to get an additional month for free. There’s a small asteroid that appears to orbit Earth in a horseshoe shape. Sometimes referred to as Earth’s second moon, but it's orbit is much weirder than that. Host: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/42662 http://theconversation.com/earths-other-moon-and-its-crazy-orbit-could-reveal-mysteries-of-the-solar-system-38010 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/cruithne-is-not-earths-second-moon-2015-3?r=US&IR=T https://futurism.com/a-day-on-cruithne-earths-second-moon https://earthsky.org/space/does-earth-have-a-second-moon http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/3753/3753.html https://physicsworld.com/a/earths-second-moon-target-of-proposed-mission/ ------ Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11935 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horseshoe_orbit_of_Cruithne_from_the_perspective_of_Earth.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orbits_of_Cruithne_and_Earth.gif https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/hubblecast52f/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cruithne.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_3753_Cruithne_orbit.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_Epimetheus_orbit_-_Rotating_reference_frame.gif https://www.eso.org/public/videos/esocast82b/ https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/cute-cartoon-earth-with-moon-gm517518868-89525783
Click here to view video on YouTube.
Subject / Teacher or Professor:
Astronautics,
Astronomy,
Astrophysics,
SciShow Space
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Ad
Latest Lesson
This mechanism shrinks when pulled
How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures. Use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get a...

-
During the lockdowns, the appearances of wild animals in cities provided a glimpse of a world spared from noise and light pollution. Scien...
-
Teacher or professor: ARTE Documentary Subject: Science Content of the Lesson: In South Africa a small community of Angolan veterans sur...
-
FIRST APPEARANCE : https://youtu.be/DmKS8a_1O2o Chuck's GoFund Me - will update when I have it Hey guys, today we have a new video for...
No comments:
Post a Comment
By using this form you agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website. For more information click on "Privacy Policy".