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Orbital Mechanics Does not work that way! (/-/ Rampant Speculation /-/)

by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, July 16, 2015, 14:45 (3178 days ago) @ Durandal

To paraphrase the newsmonster :)

The visitation order can be explained by the Traveler moving to the next nearest planet in order of distance. As each planet does not move at the same orbital period around the sun the traveler could easily hit Mercury or Venus before Earth as Earth could be on the far side of the Sun at that time.

It isn't as if it arrived during some great conjunction with all the planets aligned in a row.

I should load up starry night and look at where the planets are during the 14 months of its arrival!


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