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calculating drift coordinates

If I was to sit in the same point of space, say the chair I am sitting in right now and waited as the Earth continued to orbit the Sun; would in 12 months my location on Earth be the same or would I be somewhere else and if so how far would this point drift from my original location each year?

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Categories: Planet Earth.

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If I were launching a rocket, would I get a slingshot effect from the earth's rotation if I Iaunched it towards the east?
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  • Asked by AlanH
  • on 2009-12-03 23:55:58
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Categories: Planet Earth.

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How much solar radiation do existing man-made satellites and other space junk reflect?

With talk of solar shades and other reflecting technologies, I wonder what impact - if any - existing materials have on global temperature.
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  • Asked by chalz.r
  • on 2009-11-18 18:56:53
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Categories: Planet Earth.

Tags: Space, globalwarming.

 

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If a human grows up in space, what sensations (e.g. coriolis) would they not be used to upon visiting earth?

Aside from bone and muscle differences, which have already been covered.

For example, someone who grows up without being spun around at 400m/s as the world spins; would they feel as if they were spinning when they set down or entered orbit?

 
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  • Asked by TheMonk
  • on 2009-11-17 19:38:01
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Categories: Our universe.

Tags: Space, Earth, gravity, body, atmosphere, orbit, spin, Spaceenviroment, coriolis.

 

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In outer space, if one were to release an air-filled balloon into the vacuum, would it burst or freeze first?
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  • Asked by chalz.r
  • on 2009-11-07 02:12:30
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Tags: Space, balloon, vacuum.

 

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Miniature world...

My childhood plan has been to become rich and famous so that I can then afford to become a space tourist and make a miniature world all of my own... however, it is possible that my dream is in fact impossible thus I pose this question in hope of rescuing myself from potentially wasting several hundreds of millions; if I took with me a sphere of dirt with a bar magnet through its middle to give it a north and south pole, and once in zero gravity gave it a little spin then threw a handful of iron filings at my miniature planet could I possibly create a tiny world with an orbiting ring like Saturn's?
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  • Asked by Wee.Gray
  • on 2009-11-04 15:02:06
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Categories: Our universe.

Tags: physics, Space.

 

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How do things freeze in space?

If you think about it you can't lose heat in a vacume because molocules have nothing to transfer heat energy to. Unless space isn't a total vacume...
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  • Asked by DannyD
  • on 2009-09-26 11:45:30
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Categories: Our universe.

Tags: Space, Heatloss, Vacume.

 

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If you pushed a object in space one direction would it keep on going the same direction forever or would it change directions
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  • Asked by koolkid
  • on 2009-09-24 21:10:01
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Categories: Our universe.

Tags: Space, gravity.

 

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Why does the atmosphere stay round the earth?

The power of a vacuum is very obvious. Suction pads can defeat the earths gravity and lift a person up off the ground. So why does the vacuum of space not suck the air molecules away from earth, when the vacuum force is far greater than the earths gravitational pull? Am i overlooking something?
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Tags: Space, Earth, gravity, atmosphere, Air, vaccum.

 

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mars and venus

would it be possible to smash venus into mars to create a new planet thats habbitle, given the perfect maths and speeds were correct?
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  • Asked by mavster
  • on 2009-09-13 18:42:09
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Categories: Environment.

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