Space Science with Python - Part 13: A Close Visitor

The Near-Earth Object Orpheus had a close fly-by a few days ago. The object passed our home planet at a distance of... well... let's find out!

And did our home planet alter the orbit of the object? Probably not significantly. Next time, we will take a look at an object, whose trajectory was more disturbed by considering Earth's Sphere Of Influence (SOI)

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Content
0:00 Introduction
1:45 Python Setup & Start
5:25 The Sphere of Influence
10:30 Rounding values properly
18:35 Orbit / Trajectory computations
25:05 Summary & Outlook

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Talk to you later,
Thomas