Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary
From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: slingshot effect, simple example
Message-ID: <849@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 14:52:42 EST
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.849
Posted: Wed Dec  4 14:52:42 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Dec-85 07:25:47 EST
References: <407@wuphys.UUCP>
Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr
Lines: 13
Keywords: slingshot

In article <407@wuphys.UUCP> jmc@wuphys.UUCP (Jimmy Chen) writes:
>     Consider an infinitely mass planet as our scattering
>center (i.e. so massive that its velocity is negligible).

This is one of the most amusing simplifying assumptions I have ever
seen!  Since all orbits end at the Schwarschild radius, can we all go
home early today?  :-)  (No offense, Jimmy, I know what you meant to
say.)
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
USENET:  {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary