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To: alexander_busek

Centrifugal force?.....................


8 posted on 03/23/2020 7:39:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: Red Badger
Centrifugal force?.....................

You're thinking of all those fly-bys by NASA space probes, whereby they "stole" momentum from, e.g., Jupiter to fly on (at a higher speed) to, e.g., Saturn and beyond?

Those were hyperbolic trajectories (with respect to Jupiter).

In Classic Celestial Mechanics (yes, I know we're discussing frickin' Black Holes, here!), in a 2-body problem, the smaller body (space probe, meteor, etc.) cannot be simply captured (or "un-captured") by the larger body (e.g., planet) - unless extraneous forces (e.g., atmospheric drag, or mid-course flight corrections using rockets) are involved.

Regards,

9 posted on 03/23/2020 7:52:01 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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