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There’s a good chance that Apollo 11’s lunar module is still in orbit around the moon (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This issue is explained in quite a lot of detail in the video. There do exist some stable orbits despite the lumpiness, and it’s possible to simulate the orbit (stable or not) of any given object given its initial parameters. Guess what was the starting point for the analysis they did in the video?

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