A vehicle in low Earth orbit moves in a circular - actually elliptical - path around the Earth. That's what 'orbit' means. The vehicle will move rapidly around the planet, making many orbits per day. It may even be naked-eye visible from the ground.
A vehicle heading for the Moon moves in a stretched elliptical path and take longer to reach the satellite.
How many astronomers and others with a general or working knowledge of the subject would fail to spot the difference?
A vehicle heading for the Moon moves in a stretched elliptical path and take longer to reach the satellite.
How many astronomers and others with a general or working knowledge of the subject would fail to spot the difference?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'