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Chaotic systems like mercury orbiting the sun have zone of stability where all the potential orbits lay. The energy from a space probe doing a flyby won't impar
by Gibbon1 5y ago
Chaotic systems like mercury orbiting the sun have zone of stability where all the potential orbits lay. The energy from a space probe doing a flyby won't impart enough energy to pop it out of that zone. I'm not going to do the math but probably other planets have a larger effect on Mercuries orbit than a space probe does.