Originally posted by @sonhouseFun! And expensive! 🙂
I calculated the orbital period at around one hour. I didn't claim something new would be found about gravity, just a fun experiment.
Originally posted by @sonhouseI really don't know what would be fun about it.
I didn't claim something new would be found about gravity, just a fun experiment.
Besides, much more interesting to go look at asteroids which are already doing the experiment.
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Originally posted by @twhiteheadJust wait till I get my Nobel prize for making the first mini moons🙂
I really don't know what would be fun about it.
Besides, much more interesting to go look at asteroids which are already doing the experiment.
Seriously, I imagine such an effort would be doomed to failure inside ISS and maybe even in orbit isolated. I do notice things let loose inside ISS don't stay still, it may be impossible to make something stay in position inside due to forces probably greater than gravity, the circulating air for instance.
If you were going to try this thought experiment for real you would first have to be able to put a mass in the center of ISS and have it stay there for hours. Don't see that happening without some kind of magnetic feedback or some such.