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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
I found this animation of the solar system. Pretty interesting how the digital age opens up all sorts of new ways of looking at complex stuff..
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Originally Posted by ckissick
Also, the video assumes the sun is moving in a direction perpendicular to the orbits of the planets. Why must that be? The galaxy is also moving at 468,000 mph. But what are all these velocities relative to?
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The animation is really cool, but not accurate.
https://astrorhysy.blogspot.com/2013/12/and-yet-it-moves-but-not-like-that.html
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'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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