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From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson)
Subject: Re: Mothership for Flybys and cutting costs..
Message-ID: <1993May2.081502.17544@ee.ubc.ca>
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
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Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 08:15:02 GMT
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In article <C6DtD0.HHI@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>by what the Voyagers did:  they exploited a lineup that occurs only
>every couple of centuries, and even so Voyager 2 took a rather indirect
>route to Neptune.

Indirect compared to what?  Did Voyager 2 traverse a substantially greater
distance than, say, a Hohmann orbit?  I've never heard Voyager's path
described as "indirect" before...  

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Dave Michelson  --  davem@ee.ubc.ca  --  University of British Columbia
