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its-not-me_its-you_ t1_j2cpjwf wrote

Reply to comment by Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho 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

One day a high school class will be taking a day trip to the sun and that fucking thing is going to go hurtling by without warning because the space bus didn't have detection systems because of cost saving because someone on reddit in 2022 said "No. Its in interplanetary space."

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