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hornetblack
on June 15, 2018
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Earliest images of the moon were better than peopl...
It's really hard to orbit the moon anyway, it's not very spherical compared with the earth.
eesmith
on June 15, 2018
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Pointers for those interested -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy)...
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_orbit#Lunar_frozen_orbi...
. The "not very spherical" refers to the shape of the gravitational field, and not simply the physical shape of the Moon.
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