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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
The Earth's dance partner
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Ever heard of 3753 Cruithne ? I hadn't, which is surprising considering my obsession with astronomy. It's an asteroid which is in a...
Monday, February 27, 2023
Chewed up and spat out
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Seems like I've featured a lot of research about astrophysics here at Skeptophilia lately, and that's not only because I'm real...
Saturday, November 6, 2021
The ghoul's head and the three-body problem
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Ever heard of Algol ? Known to astronomers as Beta Persei, it's the second-brightest star in the constellation of Perseus. It was singl...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
A planetary Tilt-o-Whirl
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A long-standing unsolved puzzle in physics is the three-body problem , which despite its name is not about a ménage-à-trois . It has to do ...
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
Homing in on Tatooine
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I remember the first time I ran into the concept that the Earth's relatively circular orbit might not be universal amongst the planets o...
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