Timeline for Is there a self-rounding celestial body from which an Olympian could jump into space?
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| Jan 24, 2020 at 18:16 | comment | added | J... | Also Related : What is the minimum mass required so that objects become spherical due to its own gravity? | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 12:13 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | @RussellBorogove I think it's pretty clear the OP meant the ability to achieve escape velocity. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 5:37 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 21:20 | answer | added | Phil Frost | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 20:38 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | @CarlWitthoft Do you have an alternative definition for where space begins relative to the moon’s surface? | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 16:50 | answer | added | fraxinus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 15:23 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Why limit it to self-rounded or even rounded bodies? As the xkcd commented below points out, there's a question both of mass and diameter. And as a nit: 99% of all Olympians are crappy jumpers. They excel in other athletic activities. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 15:20 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | @RussellBorogove for degenerate definitions of "space." | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 3:09 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 23, 2020 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1220179514849886209 | ||
| Jan 22, 2020 at 22:07 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | "Jump into space" and "escaping its gravity" are two completely different things. 12 humans have jumped into space from the surface of the moon, repeatedly. | |
| Jan 22, 2020 at 19:24 | comment | added | William R. Ebenezer | Related: space.stackexchange.com/questions/31726/…; space.stackexchange.com/questions/2741/…; space.stackexchange.com/questions/31730/… | |
| Jan 22, 2020 at 19:09 | answer | added | notovny | timeline score: 39 | |
| Jan 22, 2020 at 19:05 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 22, 2020 at 19:03 | history | asked | Hal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |