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You just have to love scientists, don't you.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Using the VLBA the American Astronautical Society now state that they know the precise position of Saturn to "within one mile". This they say is 20 times more precise than previous calculations.

That's previously within 20 miles then.

Hardly likely to have travelled the billion miles or so and miss the large planet were they?

Now if only i knew where to find my potato peeler.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Astronomical society even, i doubt astronauts will ever get there. Tbf even the astonauts may know where it is.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't you just use the sat nav? Do a u-turn, do a u-turn ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

looks in the same place to me

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire


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Astronomical society even, i doubt astronauts will ever get there. Tbf even the astonauts may know where it is."

Still better than the astrological society, they're always banging on about something or other passing through Uranus...

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I find most things are close to uranus - well someone had to say it...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yeah but when you think of the size of the galaxy, and the fact that planets are moving. It is pretty awesome really. Or just me thinking that?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't see how this could actually be possible.

Both Saturn and the Earth are irregular (round-ish) shapes, called geoids, that are "almost round" in the same way that an apple is "almost round" - so you can't presume either a fixed surface, or a definable centre. So you simply can't define their "position" to within a mile, because you can't define what you're fixing...

Added to which, both planets are on very different orbits, and moving at considerable speed, so to some extent you should consider the Heisenberg Principle (which is as relevant to planets as it is to particles) and accept that we can't exactly fix the relative position of a moving body (we can't know the position and momentum at the same time)...

So, how are they claiming know the "precise position"? Please explain... thanks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its nice to know how far it is though,especially when you need to start braking.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Are the council erecting a bus stop there?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Are the council erecting a bus stop there? "

It is for the X27 from Croydon. If you have ever been to Croydon, you will understand the demand.

Bus passes, by the way, are not valid.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Yeah but when you think of the size of the galaxy, and the fact that planets are moving. It is pretty awesome

really. Or just me thinking that?"

tbf 20 miles was already more than awesome enough.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I don't see how this could actually be possible.

Both Saturn and the Earth are irregular (round-ish) shapes, called geoids, that are "almost round" in the same way that an apple is "almost round" - so you can't presume either a fixed surface, or a definable centre. So you simply can't define their "position" to within a mile, because you can't define what you're fixing...

Added to which, both planets are on very different orbits, and moving at considerable speed, so to some extent you should consider the Heisenberg Principle (which is as relevant to planets as it is to particles) and accept that we can't exactly fix the relative position of a moving body (we can't know the position and momentum at the same time)...

So, how are they claiming know the "precise position"? Please explain... thanks.

"

would you like their e-mail address?

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