This can easily go infinite though. We don't actually orbit the Sun -- the Sun and all the planets orbit their respective centers of mass. And we orbit a common center of mass with the Milky Way. But its orbiting a common center of mass with the other galaxies in the Local Group, and so on and so on.
I put the package together, and the reason I decided to not include the Challenger was that it's, well, pretty darn morbid. The idea was a kind of combination of something Fox News would have done, like "When Animals Attack," with an equal number of spectacular launch successes to balance it out and not be too negative.
Including Challenger would have made it akin to broadcasting videos of fatal plane and car crashes.
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This can easily go infinite though. We don't actually orbit the Sun -- the Sun and all the planets orbit their respective centers of mass. And we orbit a common center of mass with the Milky Way. But its orbiting a common center of mass with the other galaxies in the Local Group, and so on and so on.
Including Challenger would have made it akin to broadcasting videos of fatal plane and car crashes.
Hope you don't mind me poking my head in here.
Rob Myers
Multimedia Producer, SPACE.com