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Originally posted by Backslider
How can these results be from the same day when the last Elenin observation was 8/02?
Originally posted by Ghost375
reply to post by 31Bravo
So they accurately determine the trajectory of hundreds of thousands of other objects, but when it comes to Elenin they say screw it?
Originally posted by trueperspective
Oh and before I hear the old, "they just tweeked the orbit based on new information." note the distances. One says 0.463 and one says 0.234. that is a difference of 34,257,942 km. That is hardly "tweeking." That is a MASSIVE difference.
Okay I went to your NASA Buzzroom link and I'm more confused now than I was. Perhaps you can address this, since it is a link you've given us. On that page it says the distance estimate was revised downward from .024 AU to 0.0004617.
Originally posted by CLPrime
Originally posted by trueperspective
Oh and before I hear the old, "they just tweeked the orbit based on new information." note the distances. One says 0.463 and one says 0.234. that is a difference of 34,257,942 km. That is hardly "tweeking." That is a MASSIVE difference.
What's 2+2? And don't tell me it's 4...I don't like that answer.
That is a huge difference when you put it in kilometers like that. But, that's just 0.229 AU - a 49.46% change. That's a perfectly reasonable change in orbital calculations for a comet that had only been observed for 3 months as of March.