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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
More Space Navigation
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2003 Feb 20, 08:35 +1100
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2003 Feb 20, 08:35 +1100
I'm wondering whether navigating within our solar system really is as three-dimensional as we we assume it must be. When we are traveling from one planet to another we stay on the plane of planetary orbit. So what has to be plotted is the trajectory from one moving body to another, difficult enough but essentially an exercise in only two dimensions.