"Allen W. McDonnell" wrote in
:

Getting to Mercury is less energy intensive than
getting to Jupiter.

My BOTE calculations show that a Hohmann transfer to Mercury requires a
delta-V of 17.5 km/s, while Jupiter requires only 14.4 km/s.

Intuition can be deceiving here.
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JRF

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