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From: gml@ssc-vax.UUCP (Gregory M Lobdell)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: slingshot effect
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 18:53:24 EST
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> 
> Can anyone explain to me (in 250 words or less) the famed
> 'slingshot' effect that is used to accelerate space probes?
> 

I am told, though I haven't actually written a simulation for it
that the slingshot effect is due to the fact that you are falling
into a moving object, so as you fall, it pulls you along.

Gregg Lobdell