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13. It actually tilted a little more today thanks to a spacecraft slingshot fly-by

Fri Sep 22, 2017, 02:44 PM

Sep 2017

“We’re essentially stealing a bit of the Earth’s momentum as we go by,” said Michael Moreau, who leads Osiris-Rex’s navigation team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

As a consequence, Earth’s tilt will change ever so slightly, too small to be worth calculating. “It would be a very small number,” Dr. Moreau said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/science/osiris-rex-flyby-nasa.html

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It actually tilted a little more today thanks to a spacecraft slingshot fly-by DoctorPepper Sep 2017 #13