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Re: Speculation Re Planet Orbiting Alpha Centauri 1
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Robt Clements/">Robt Clements on November 26, 1999 02:48:36 UTC |
http://niac.usra.edu/studies/9801/9801Final/McNuttFinal.pdf was written in parallel with Winglee's research & therefore doesn't include M2P2 in its calculations; but doesn't crunch some useful numbers for nearterm interstellar missions. Oddly, it identifies Alpha Centauri as a harder target to reach that somewhere like Epsilon Eridani (although the mission to EE would take considerably long)... the reason: the cheapest was to get velocity is still Jovian/Solar gravity assist; & orbital configurations for an Alpha Centauri flight are rather harder than for some other targets. If i've read the M2P2 data correctly - never guaranteed - the system avoids some of the problems identified by McNutt; but not all of them.... |
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