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In article <719132495.F00003@blkcat.UUCP> Tomas.Svitek@f118.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Tomas Svitek) writes:
>HS>>Aerobrake?
>
>HS>In what? :-)  Pluto does have an atmosphere of sorts at the moment, but
>HS>I'd guess it's too thin to do much aerobraking in, even if we knew its
>HS>properties well enough to plan an aerobraking mission, which we don't.
>HS>And we'd have to kill a lot of velocity; Pluto is roughly 150 km/s-years
>HS>away (how's that for strange units? :-)), so for a reasonable trip time
>HS>we're talking about killing maybe 20 km/s, which is high.
>
>Actually, there is a fairly serious proposal (albeit very tentative)
>from GE Reentry Systems regarding aerobraking at Pluto.

How about aerobraking at Neptune first?

While I'm here, anyone know if a gravity assist trajectory can be used to 
*reduce* speed?  


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             ...but officer, I was only doing 20km a second...