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The object known as 2020 SO was first discovered on September 17 2020 and was suspected to be an artificial (man-made) object due to its low relative velocity. This suspicion was later confirmed by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in December of 2020 when the observatory found the object's spectrum to match that of stainless steel. Calculations have shown that this object is a rocket booster launched in 1966(54 years ago! Feeling old yet?) as part of the Surveyor 2 mission to explore our primary (and the best!) Moon! It was captured by our planet when it entered Earth's Gravity Sphere on 8th November 2020 through Lagrange point L2 (a point of equilibrium b/w two massive bodies; in this case the Sun and the Earth). It made a close approach on December 1, 2020 coming at a 50,000 km perigee(closest point in orbit). For reference, our Telecom satellites are at 36,000 km circular orbit.  It is set to make a final approach on 2nd February of 2021 and leave Earth's Gravity S...

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature, it is part of the interplay between nature and us – Werner Heisenberg Some of you readers might have read about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in high school or maybe even in college if you’ve attended courses on Quantum mechanics and Atomic Chemistry. But here we’re going to touch this topic both on an intuitive and mathematical level. Life has many trade-offs, the way my professor explained this to me is a very intuitive way of understanding this topic. Let’s say you’re observing the routine of your mom and after a week, you realized that she’s gone to the Church on Saturday. Now, based on just this information, can we predict that your mom goes to the Church every Saturday? Of course not, we need further time for observation. Let’s say you then observe her for a month and notice that she goes to the church every Saturday. Based on this we might be able to make a statistical prediction, that your mom goes to the...