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To: BenLurkin
“Orbiting around the second-biggest planet in the solar system is relatively easy. Transferring orbits to its largest moon is much more difficult. Solving that problem requires tackling the three-body problem, a notoriously difficult orbital mechanics problem that involves solving the orbits of three different orbital bodies (i.e., the spacecraft, Saturn and Titan).”

Spacecraft, Earth, Moon?

11 posted on 10/20/2020 12:33:14 AM PDT by coaster123 (Hate has a home here.)
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To: coaster123; BenLurkin
"Orbiting around the second-biggest planet in the solar system is relatively easy. Transferring orbits to its largest moon is much more difficult. Solving that problem requires tackling the three-body problem, a notoriously difficult orbital mechanics problem that involves solving the orbits of three different orbital bodies (i.e., the spacecraft, Saturn and Titan)."

The Three-Body Problem pertains to three bodies - all of which have appreciable mass (i.e., enough mass to gravitationally affect the other two bodies). Not even the International Space Station (weighing in at 420 metric tons) is anywhere close to massive enough to have any non-negligible effect upon either the Earth or the Moon.

Regards,

14 posted on 10/20/2020 3:26:45 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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