Our Entire Solar System Doesn't Exactly Orbit The Sun

It's common knowledge that the Sun is the centre of the Solar System. Around it, the planets orbit – along with a thick belt of asteroids, some meteor fields, and a handful of far-travelling comets.

 

But that's not the whole story.
"Instead, everything orbits the Solar System centre of mass," James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency, JAXA, recently explained on Twitter. "Even the Sun."
That centre of mass, called the barycenter, is the point of an object at which it can be balanced perfectly, with all its mass distributed evenly on all sides. In our Solar System, that point rarely lines up with the centre of the Sun.

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NASA will soon try to fly a helicopter over Mars: "It really is like the Wright brothers' moment"

The 4-pound helicopter, Ingenuity, will travel to Mars clutching the rover's belly and, a few months after touchdown, attempt to fly solo. Once dropping onto the Martian surface, Ingenuity will start out like a baby bird, rising 10 feet into the planet's extremely thin atmosphere and flying forward up to 6 feet. 


Set for liftoff this week, the newest rover is taking a helicopter along for an otherworldly test flight.

 
"It really is like the Wright brothers' moment," said project manager MiMi Aung. She has one month to squeeze in as many helicopter hops as possible before the rover moves on to more pressing geologic work. The future could see next-generation helicopters scouting out distant Martian territory for astronauts or even robots.
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Florida Man Receives $3.9 Million in COVID-19 Relief Funds, Buys a Lamborghini

David T. Hines, 29, was arrested on Friday and charged on Monday according to a statement by the Department of Justice. Over $3 million has been seized from his bank accounts along with the sports vehicle.



According to the DOJ's statement, Hines lied on the loan applications and made inaccurate statements about the expenses of the companies, including the amount paid to employees.
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ਅੱਜ ਦਾ ਫ਼ਰਮਾਨ: ਅੰਗ #੪੪੨ | Today's extract from Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji from Page #442

ਆਪਣੇ ਮਨ ਦੇ ਪਿੱਛੇ ਤੁਰਨ ਵਾਲੇ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਦੁੱਖ ਸਹਾਰਦੇ ਹਨ ਦੁੱਖ ਇਕੱਠੇ ਕਰਦੇ ਰਹਿੰਦੇ ਹਨ ਦੁੱਖ ਭੋਗਦੇ ਰਹਿੰਦੇ ਹਨ, ਉਹਨਾਂ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਜੀਵਨ ਵਿਚ ਦੁੱਖਾਂ ਦਾ ਹੀ ਵਾਧਾ ਵਧਾਇਆ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਪਰ, ਹੇ ਨਾਨਕ! ਜਦੋਂ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ ਦੀ ਸਰਨ ਆ ਪੈਂਦਾ ਹੈ, ਤਦੋਂ ਇਹ ਔਖਾ ਤਰਿਆ ਜਾਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਸੰਸਾਰ-ਸਮੁੰਦਰ ਸੌਖਾ ਤਰਿਆ ਜਾ ਸਕਦਾ ਹੈ।



अपने मन के पीछे चलने वाले मनुष्य दुख सहते हैं, दुख संचित करते रहते हैं, उन्होंने अपने जीवन में दुखों की ही बढ़ोक्तरी की हुई होती है। पर, हे नानक! जब मनुष्य गुरु की शरण आ पड़ता है, तब ये मुश्किल से पार होने वाला संसार-समुंदर आसानी से तैरा जा सकता है।
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Chef in a Restaurant Shows Off his Pizza Dough Flipping Skills

I can't get over that he rolled it over his shoulders!

 

Seecafe Hanau, Germany
Name of the song: "Renzo Arbore e L'Orchestra Italiana - Cocorito"

This guy’s gonna bring an ice cooler full of dough to bust out at his daughter’s wedding 👰🍕
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Gone Bankrupt: Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Arrow, Pizza Hut, Wendy's

Big chains filed for bankruptcy and closed stores every week in July. Here are 9 of them.




Coronavirus, massive amounts of debt and a shift in shopping habits created a lethal cocktail of bankruptcies and store closures in July.
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The Queen May Never Return to Buckingham Palace

THE QUEEN of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Elizabeth II is "devastated" by the news she will never return to Buckingham Palace again during her lifetime, in a crushing blow to the monarch.




The impact of the coronavirus pandemic means that the Queen is "highly likely" never to step back into Buckingham Palace again. The news has "devastated" the Queen, who has spent her life living in Buckingham Palace during her long-serving reign as monarch. The Queen and Prince Philip have been staying at Windsor Castle since relocating from Buckingham Palace and the Sandringham estate on March 19.
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