File:The Looping Orbits of 2020 SO.gif

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DescriptionThe Looping Orbits of 2020 SO.gif	English: "This animation shows the temporary orbit of 2020 SO around Earth from November to March 2021. The object is thought to be the Centaur upper-stage booster rocket from the Surveyor 2 mission that launched to the Moon in 1966. While the Surveyor 2 lander crashed into the lunar surface, the spent Centaur rocket drifted past the Moon and ended up in an unknown solar orbit. Over 50 years later, the Centaur rocket has apparently returned, entering Earth orbit on Nov. 10 where it will remain until March 2021 before escaping back into a new solar orbit. This animation has been sped up a million times faster than real-time."
Date	12 November 2020
Source	https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/earth-may-have-captured-a-1960s-era-rocket-booster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-v2w0wq40I) (command used to create the animated gif from the video: ffmpeg -i "./video.mp4" -vf "fps=29,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -loop 0 output.gif
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Other versions	The Looping Orbits of 2020 SO (small version).gif

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:11, 15 February 2021	836 × 480 (1 MB)	Bürgerentscheid	Reverted to version as of 23:07, 30 January 2021 (UTC) change unnecessary. There is already a working version of this file
	11:44, 15 February 2021	836 × 480 (584 KB)	Bürgerentscheid	framerate reduced to fit 100 MP limit, 836x480x188=75.440.640
	23:07, 30 January 2021	836 × 480 (1 MB)	Prototyperspective	Uploaded a work by NASA/JPL-Caltech from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/earth-may-have-captured-a-1960s-era-rocket-booster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-v2w0wq40I) with UploadWizard