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Old 03-06-2010, 10:04 PM
adman (Adam)
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Originally Posted by Nesti View Post
An object in orbit should maintain it's orientation to the central mass, ie, the nose of a space shuttle if pointing toward Earth will remain pointed toward Earth because the geodestic pathway curves around the Earth, and the geodesic runs tangental to the curve.
So you would only see the 6 in the die example in post #43 above?
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