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Old July 21st 06, 07:48 PM posted to sci.astro.research
Oz
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Default Fastest possible practical slingshot.

In another thread discussions have been going on about a satellite to
reinvestigate pioneer anomalous acceleration.

To do this it would be helpful to reach the outer solar system as
rapidly as possible, using a light cheap and relatively simple
spacecraft.

The precise trajectory is not very important.

What would be the fastest economical way to go trans-plutonic?

I presume a slingshot round the moon followed by a close slingshot
around jupiter would be best, but what would the fastest be?

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Old July 22nd 06, 12:01 PM posted to sci.astro.research
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Default Fastest possible practical slingshot.

Oz wrote:
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To do this it would be helpful to reach the outer solar system as
rapidly as possible, using a light cheap and relatively simple
spacecraft.

The precise trajectory is not very important.

What would be the fastest economical way to go trans-plutonic?

I presume a slingshot round the moon followed by a close slingshot


There was an article about this in a popular magazine some
years ago. I think the answer was multiple swings around the
earth-moon system and venus in between, then onto Jupiter etc.
It seems that a two body system like the earth-moon is very
effective in exchanging momentum.

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