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The Earth drifts along its orbit, majestically rotating around its axis. The large and small planets also spin around their axes. The alert and curious reader has undoubtedly observed tiny stars drifting on the night sky, alternately flashing brightly and dying out like candles: those are artificial satellites, which in their rotation show the observer different sides, alternately turning to the Sun a large shining side or one that reflects almost no light.
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How lovely these flares are that light up the dark They climb their own peak and lean down to look They are dancing ladies whose glances become eyes arm and hearts
Guillaume Apollinaire, Wonder of warin: Calligrammes, translated by Anne Hyde Greet Univ. of California Press, Berkely, 1980
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Beletsky, V.V. (2001). They are Waltzing in Orbits. In: Essays on the Motion of Celestial Bodies. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8360-3_6
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