Template:Did you know nominations/Mars cycler

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:13, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Mars cycler

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Buzz Aldrin, discoverer of the Aldrin cycler

• ... that astronaut Buzz Aldrin (pictured) discovered the Aldrin cycler, a means of repeatedly travelling between Earth and Mars? Source: "In 1985, Aldrin suggested that an Earth-Mars cycler may exist which repeats every synodic period. This was subsequently confirmed by Byrnes et al." ([1])

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/James Park Woods

Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:08, 31 December 2018 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Some of the one-line paragraphs are unsourced, but the overall physics section is sourced, so that's fine. Interesting article DannyS712 (talk) 00:34, 30 December 2018 (UTC)