Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center

Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by peyton on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:09PM (#34939964)

Here’s NASA misstating the distance between the Earth and the Sun: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/YOSS_Act1.pdf

Obviously the Earth’s orbit is noncircular. Is that what you mean?

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by labster on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:25PM (#34940101)

At some astronomical scales numbers like this don’t matter. Sure, if you’re doing parallax calculations you need precise orbits, but most of the time you can assume π = 3.

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by andsoitis on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:15PM (#34940567)

Misstatement is different from lying, no?

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by themitigating on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:14PM (#34940980)

This says the distance is 93m miles. That's about what the distance is

I'm referring to people who think it's like a few thousand feet above the earth.

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