egg changed the topic of #principia to: Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/principia | <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
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⟨kraimoco⟩ orbit
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⟨makoivis⟩ The biggest reason to go back and forth is that when you’re fiddling with the burn to fall into moon’s gravity well, it’s easy to lose track of “grazing” the orbit of the moon and instead end up intersecting it.
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⟨makoivis⟩ I spent like an entire evening before I got my first ballistic capture
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⟨makoivis⟩ Now it’s easy
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⟨thunkii⟩ the next lunar standstill will be in 14 months. soon you too can launch into the moon's plane from Florida or Texas!
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⟨makoivis⟩ okay so screenshots of plotting a ballistic capture