838: Using Pulsars to Navigate in Space with Dr. Zach Putnam
Universe Today Podcast
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How Do I Know Where I'm At?
If you're orbiting around the earth, there is a very precise pathway that you are probably following. So if you get this set of points on the pulse, and there's more than one, so the question is, well, which one am i at? And if you know that, well, an hour ago i was here, so it's going to be the closest one I deal you're orbituh, okay. Now. Uh, the trick that we've been working on as well, what if i don't know where i was right? And how do i figure it out? Uh?
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