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- From: Lauren.Podolak@mechanic.Fidonet.org (Lauren Podolak)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Drop nuc waste into
- Message-ID: <581.2AF8ED3B@mechanic.Fidonet.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 16:03:00 PDT
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- DD>Since the earth's escape velocity from near the surface is 11 km/s, a
- DD>payload on a direct solar impact trajectory would have to be moving at
- DD>about sqrt(11^2 + 30^2) = 32 km/s at thrust termination. However,
- DD>a payload on a solar escape trajectory would need a speed of only about
- DD>sqrt(11^2 + 12^2) = 16 km/s. Since energy is proportional to v^2, the
- DD>direct solar impact trajectory takes about 4 times the launch energy as
- DD>the solar escape trajectory. This is a HUGE difference.
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- Why not simply dump the stuff on Luna? Less energy involved yet and
- frankly it makes sense since at some date we will probably come up with
- a need for the stuff.
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- Lauren
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