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The Earth's Moon orbit appears incorrect
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| Kosh | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 05:08 | Message # 1 |
 Space Tourist
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| The moon will not pass trough the Earth's shadow during the 2014 - 2015 lunar eclipses. It appears that the moons orbital inclination is off, which also means during a solar eclipse, the Sun's shadow will not appear on the surface of the Earth. I ran other eclipse scenarios as well, the results are the same.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 05:11 | Message # 2 |
 Cosmic Curator
Group: Administrators
United States
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| This is a known issue. It's not that the moon has incorrect orbital elements, but that its orbital elements are variable. It cannot be accurately represented as a static Keplerian orbit. Fixing this issue will require implementation of support for custom orbit models.
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