earth-moon

OK everyone, in the name of transparency, here goes ... if you even care: I've got a BSE and MSE in aerospace engineering from the Univ. of Texas at Austin, worked as a research assistant at the Center for Space Research, did my Master's thesis on mission and trajectory optimization for earth-moon missions, and worked as a programmer at JPL's Nav Section 312.

New NASA Admin Rumors - NASA Watch 2009

June 1st, 2009 4: 33pm elixelx as tidal forces dissipate the energy of the earth-sun gravatational interaction, the earth and sun get further apart, not closer as you surmise. same for the earth-moon distance, 3 feet/century, verified by reflections from mirrors left there by earthlings decades ago. not that any of this makes a bit of difference.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Jupiter's having planets made the earth-moon system non-unique and so again the earth became like the other planets.

Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

June 1st, 2009 4: 33pm elixelx as tidal forces dissipate the energy of the earth-sun gravatational interaction, the earth and sun get further apart, not closer as you surmise. same for the earth-moon distance, 3 feet/century, verified by reflections from mirrors left there by earthlings decades ago. not that any of this makes a bit of difference.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

What is involution and why the cause of everything is ascribed to it; and in that scheme of things, where does the earth-moon relationship stand, are certainly interesting areas of study.

Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

What is involution and why the cause of everything is ascribed to it; and in that scheme of things, where does the earth-moon relationship stand, are certainly interesting areas of study.

Sunbeams of knowledge Moonbeams of delight Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

* Major impacts: the earth-moon system was formed by a massive collison of an earth-size body and a Mars-size body.

Get your beachfront property now... - The Panda's Thumb 2007

The explanation, “curvature”, is simple, just as the explanation, “gravitation”, for the deficit in mass of the earth-moon system (or deficit for the neutron star, or surplus for the region of space occupied by the gravitational waves) is simple.

A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

Okay, so the earth-moon system may eventually become a double planet instead, and caught or ejected planets will get or loose planet status.

Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Except for a half-dozen moon expeditions and the ill-fated de Lancey flight aimed at the seductive orb of Venus, they were the first men to feel other gravity than earth's, and certainly the first successful crew to leave the earth-moon system.

A Martian Odyssey Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918