Re: Slingshot around Jupiter

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:58:11 GMT, in a place far, far away, PP@xxxxxx
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate
that:

I saw on a video where a small spacecraft was heading for Pluto and
would do a loop around Jupiter on the way for a little boost. Does it
have to do a burn to get into orbit, then another to get out of orbit,
or is its path only being slightly bent by the pull of Jupiter?

It doesn't go into orbit around Jupiter. It steals a little bit of
its momentum to get a boost as it goes by. No burns are required,
other than (perhaps) minor trajectory corrections.
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