L4, L5 Gravity Wells

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Thread: L4, L5 Gravity Wells

# 15574 byCharles Radley on Aug. 18, 2001, 5:58 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

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> My guess is that any radar strong enough to track the foil will also
> impart energy to the foil's orbit.
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That is close but not what I had in mind.

There is another disturbance force which would be a lot stronger than
that.

The same force I mentioned during the discussion of mass driver pellets
returning to the point of origin (or not).