From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)
Subject: japanese moon landing/temporary orbit
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana
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rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Ray Swartz (Oh, that guy again)) writes:

>The gravity maneuvering that was used was to exploit 'fuzzy regions'.  These
>are described by the inventor as exploiting the second-order perturbations in a
>three body system.  The probe was launched into this region for the
>earth-moon-sun system, where the perturbations affected it in such a way as to
>allow it to go into lunar orbit without large expenditures of fuel to slow
>down. The idea is that 'natural objects sometimes get captured without
>expending fuel, we'll just find the trajectory that makes it possible". The
>originator of the technique said that NASA wasn't interested, but that Japan
>was because their probe was small and couldn't hold a lot of fuel for
>deceleration.


I should probably re-post this with another title, so that
the guys on the other thread would see that this is a practical
use of "temporary orbits..."

Another possible temporary orbit:

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