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From: brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Ulysses probe
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 15:04:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 15:04:11 1986
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Reply-To: brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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>   I don't have any idea what these people are talking about.  The whole
>idea is that Ulysses is being launched to rendezvous with Jupiter just
>like Voyager and Galileo, but it will swing around Jupiter and back over
>the solar pole.  Presumably it will then leave the solar system; what
>would cause it to circle around to the other pole??

Well, the same force that whould cause Ulysses to go around Jupiter could
cause Ulysses to orbit the sun, namly gravity.  If the trajectory was
correct, Ulysses would be caught by the sun and orbit over the pools.
However, I have no idea if this is the plan or not.


			-- Brad Brahms
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