TIL: in 2002 amateur astronomer Bill Yeung accidentally rediscovered the 3rd stage of Apollo 12s Rocket, after NASA misscalculated its discarding burn, causing it to enter a 40 year cycle switching between sun and earth orbits. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Anubis17_76 t3_zzir0b on December 31, 2022 at 2:19 AM in todayilearned 16 comments 359
TacTurtle t1_j2clgy8 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 6:19 AM Reply to comment by leiferickson09 in TIL: in 2002 amateur astronomer Bill Yeung accidentally rediscovered the 3rd stage of Apollo 12s Rocket, after NASA misscalculated its discarding burn, causing it to enter a 40 year cycle switching between sun and earth orbits. by Anubis17_76 >them Kerbals FTFY Permalink Parent 14
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