NASA F/A-18 Serves As Flying Observatory
Astronomers are using the back seat of a NASA F/A-18 fighter to search for Vulcanoids--hypothetical asteroids within the orbit of Mercury. Their orbits would be 0.07-0.21 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, which is at most a 12-deg. spacing as viewed from the Earth. Objects that close are hard to...
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