Citations:perihadion
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English citations of perihadion
Periapsis around Pluto[edit]
Possibly not durably archived[edit]
- 2018, University of Kansas Team, “PROSERPINE: Pluto Research Orbiter Studying Experimental Rocket Propulsion for Improving trans-Neptunian Exploration”, in 2017-2018 Design Competition Winning Reports[1], American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics:
- Once the spacecraft is in a polar orbit, it will conduct a series of short burns near perihadion to reduce its orbital eccentricity and semi-major axis.
Not durably archived[edit]
- 2015, Riccardo Antonelli, “Why won't/didn't New Horizons stop at Pluto and instead had to fly by?”, in Constantly Asked Physics Questions[2], archived from the original on 2020-12-06:
- Then, if you just keep coasting, you will accelerate until you reach a closest point, the perihadion, where your speed is greatest, and then you'll exit the system decelerating until you're back to your original speed. That should be clear from before.