pleuf8 t1_jdza9c1 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 8:04 AM Reply to Photo of the comet Hale-Bopp above a tree on 29 March 1997. Wikipedia Picture of the day on May 27, 2008. Source Wikipedia. by Aeromarine_eng Those were the days ! Good memories in an astronomy club lead by Jean Chapelle, who took that picture of Hale-Bopp from a rugby field. https://www.astronomes-auvergne.fr/wp-content/gallery/archives/Jean-Chapelle-et-Hale-Bopp.jpg Permalink 2
pleuf8 t1_itbcfwg wrote on October 22, 2022 at 9:59 AM Reply to Do satellites have space moon-like objects orbiting around then? by another-u-slash No. Other forces on such objects (sun/earth/moon gravitational pull, solar wind induced pressure, atmospheric drag) would dwarf the gravitational pull of any artificial satellite. No stable orbit possible around them. Permalink 2
pleuf8 t1_jdza9c1 wrote
Reply to Photo of the comet Hale-Bopp above a tree on 29 March 1997. Wikipedia Picture of the day on May 27, 2008. Source Wikipedia. by Aeromarine_eng
Those were the days ! Good memories in an astronomy club lead by Jean Chapelle, who took that picture of Hale-Bopp from a rugby field.
https://www.astronomes-auvergne.fr/wp-content/gallery/archives/Jean-Chapelle-et-Hale-Bopp.jpg