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This fascinates me. On a side note, can somebody much smarted then me tell me if it's possible to "sling shot" (Gravity assist?) Off a Lagrange point?
by penagwin 8y ago
This fascinates me.
On a side note, can somebody much smarted then me tell me if it's possible to "sling shot" (Gravity assist?) Off a Lagrange point?
- abecedarius 8y agoNot a sling shot in terms of gaining energy, but there's an interesting trick I don't really understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...
- sandworm101 8y agoYes, if coming from outside the 2-body system. But you aren't really getting an assist from the L point. You are being accelerated by the pair of bodies that create the point. Such an assist is very very slight, not worth the effort in comparison to using either of the bodies directly. Unless you are an interstellar traveler looking for an assist from a pair of binary stars that you really do not want to get too close to. That is scifi territory atm.