Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Only three more centuries of LEO silliness

One problem with the International Space Station is that it had to be International, and one such nation was Russia. For a long time Russia was the cheapest manufacturer of rockets to get up there. This meant that the ISS orbit had to be tilted. Worst of all there's a patch of nonmagnet in the south [UPDATE 7/15 which blows bubbles at us]. In orbital dynamics what starts north must come south.

"Today" (I know, it's 21 June as I poast) we got word that anomaly is going away. In AD 2320. But still!

This comes from an archaeology of pottery, Ceramic I assume. So from 7000 BC onward. Ceramics are available in Jomon pre-Japan before then but they weren't looked at. Our time is tagged most like to 600 BC.

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