?is=D45TS2bFcT4hi7Cx Hey everyone! Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been catching up on the recent papers by Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, Dr. Stephen Bruehl, and the VASCO team on the pre-Sputnik optical transients on the historical Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) plates (1949-1958). I made a 30 minute documentary breaking down the optical physics, orbital mechanics and geospatial statistics from both papers (2609.05105 and 2609.09461) and wanted to share a qu...

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Hey everyone! Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been catching up on the recent papers by Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, Dr. Stephen Bruehl, and the VASCO team on the pre-Sputnik optical transients on the historical Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) plates (1949-1958). I made a 30 minute documentary breaking down the optical physics, orbital mechanics and geospatial statistics from both papers (2609.05105 and 2609.09461) and wanted to share a quick summary of the core data points here for disc...