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maybe it's my mind, but that was the worst angle possible for that animation at the bottom!
by gcb 15y ago
maybe it's my mind, but that was the worst angle possible for that animation at the bottom!
- T-hawk 15y agoIt's okay once you understand what it's doing. It's showing the asteroid's movement in relation to Earth - from a vantage point mostly fixed relative to Earth. The viewpoint sweeps above and below Earth's orbit to give you some idea of what the asteroid is doing in three dimensions. It is not showing the asteroid's path around the Sun and isn't trying to. The asteroid's path relative to Earth is actually more relevant, for us to calculate how to observe it and to project any possible collision.
- jcitme 15y agoIt took me reading that it was oscillating between L3 and L4 before i "got" the animation, I was assuming it was between L4 and L5 at first...