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  1. Connect the dots...finding all possible orbits between two points.

    Article • European Journal of Physics, July 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  2. How fast can an object collide with a tripping hazard without tipping over?

    Article • Physics Education, June 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  3. Arrange for objects launched sequentially from a satellite to arrive at the same place and time!

    Article • European Journal of Physics, June 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  4. How does staging allow a rocket to push its payload to a faster final speed?

    Article • Physics Education, May 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  5. Can a toy drone fly on Mars? How much faster should its rotors rotate to hover on other worlds?

    Article • The Physics Teacher, September 2021, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  6. Get outta here! How to escape from a circular orbit as fast as possible.

    Article • American Journal of Physics, January 2021, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  7. Maximum Momentum and Kinetic Energy of a Rocket

    Article • The Physics Teacher, November 2020, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  8. Modeling ICBM Trajectories Around a Rotating Globe with Systems Tool Kit

    Article • The Physics Teacher, October 2020, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  9. Acceleration of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma in the Low Corona as Measured by the Citizen CATE Experiment

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, December 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  10. Rocket Propulsion, Classical Relativity, and the Oberth Effect

    Article • The Physics Teacher, October 2019, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  11. Computational skydiving

    Article • The Physics Teacher, September 2019, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  12. Solution to the March, 2019 Challenge Downton Abbey*

    Article • The Physics Teacher, September 2019, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  13. What is the final speed of a rocket that ejects matter in discrete pellets, not continuously?

    Article • Physics Education, August 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  14. Air drag in the projectile lab

    Article • The Physics Teacher, May 2018, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  15. Slow Down or Speed up? Lowering Periapsis Versus Escaping from a Circular Orbit

    Article • The Physics Teacher, January 2017, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  16. Modeling Rosetta’s final descent

    Article • The Physics Teacher, December 2016, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  17. Satellite splat II: an inelastic collision with a surface-launched projectile and the maximum orbital radius for planetary impact

    Article • European Journal of Physics, May 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan, Dr. Philip Blanco

  18. Angular momentum and Philae's descent

    Article • The Physics Teacher, December 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  19. Rosetta Mission's “7 Hours of Terror” and Philae's Descent

    Article • The Physics Teacher, September 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  20. Satellite splat: an inelastic collision with a surface-launched projectile

    Article • European Journal of Physics, April 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan, Dr. Philip Blanco

  21. Extreme X-Ray Behavior of the Low-Luminosity Active Nucleus in NGC 4395

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, May 2005, American Astronomical Society

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  22. A qualitative test of a unified model of Seyfert galaxies with BeppoSAX

    Article • Advances in Space Research, January 2000, Elsevier

    Ms Rebeckah Aubertin, Dr. Philip Blanco

  23. A search for cyclotron lines in the bursting pulsar, GRO J1744-28

    Article • Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, January 1999, Elsevier

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  24. RXTE observations of Cas A

    Article • Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, January 1999, Elsevier

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  25. In‐Flight Performance of the High Energy X‐Ray Timing Experiment on theRossi X‐Ray Timing Explorer

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, March 1998, American Astronomical Society

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  26. Radio pulsars observed at X-ray energies by the X-ray timing explorer

    Article • Advances in Space Research, January 1998, Elsevier

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  27. ROSATPosition of GRO J1744−28 and Search for Its Near‐Infrared Counterpart

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 1997, American Astronomical Society

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  28. Optical/Near‐Infrared Observations of GRO J1744−28

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, May 1997, American Astronomical Society

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  29. Detection of Hard X-Ray Emission from Mkn 463

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, June 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  30. H [CSC]i[/CSC] Absorption toward the Nucleus of the Powerful Radio Galaxy Cygnus A: Evidence for an Atomic Obscuring Torus?

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 1995, American Astronomical Society

    Dr. Philip Blanco

  31. Broad infrared line emission from the nuclei of Seyfert 2 galaxies

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Philip Blanco