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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: interstellar probes
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 14:16:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 14:16:52 1985
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In article <2010@mordor.UUCP> @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:king@Kestrel writes:
>One way of getting close approaches to the planets and still not have
>to decelerate is to have two probes; one would locate the planets and
>radio the information to its parner, a MIRVed probe approximately a
>year behind.  The second prob has to be MIRVed because there is little
>chance of catching even two planets with one probe; gravitational
>manouvering doesn't work at .20C.

I'm going to get flamed for being this picky, but MIRV stands for Multiple
Independently targeted Reentry Vehicle.  I don't think he had reentry in mind.

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-  Sean Casey				UUCP:	{cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean
-  Department of Mathematics		ARPA:	ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA	
-  University of Kentucky