In case anyone was wondering (and since TFA doesn't mention it), the nearest sextuplet star, is, of course, Alpha Geminorum, a.k.a. Castor, the second-brightest star in the zodiac sign of Gemini, a.k.a. the Twins. It's some 50-odd lightyears away.
Note that Beta Geminorum, a.k.a. Pollux, is actually the brightest star in Gemini (whether Johann Bayer labelled Castor as the alpha star because it rises first in the night's sky, or because mythologically, the twins are always labelled "Castor and Pollux", is unknown). Pollux is a single star, with one confirmed exoplanet, Polydeuces orbitting it.
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The only changes in the ISS's orbit are caused almost exclusively by:
All of these do virtually nothing to change the orbital plane of the station, which is â"at an inclination of 51.6 degreesâ" optimal for Russian launches only (and we're bloody grateful for their participation, with US access to the station going away for an indeterminate interval starting 2011).
The type of orbital plane changes you allude to would require massive amounts of energy and/or propellant, neither which is available (even with the final segment of the US power truss in place).
Drive manufactures in that case found every way possible to round up, including using 1000 bytes as a KB when it is only a KiB.
Actually, the size of a KiB (Kibibyte) is not in question, it's most certainly 1024 bytes. The kB (Kilobyte) on the other hand, is used by drive manufacturers to mean 1000 bytes, and in this they are only following IEC, IEEE and ISO standards.
00:59:60 CET, you mean.
And there are other timezones besides Greenwich Mean Time and Central European Time in Europe too: Eastern European Time, Moscou Time and even a smattering of Samara Time and Yekaterinburg Time.
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