Hitting the Sun is HARD

Опубликовано 19 июля 2016, 12:30

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This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it’s so hard to crash into the sun – the energy it takes to get there is astoundingly high, compared with leaving the solar system.

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REFERENCES

International Atomic Energy Association report on nuclear waste storage:
www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publicat...

And Slate’s article on actual potential solutions to nuclear waste: slate.com/articles/health_and_...

Info about sun dive delta v from low earth orbit
space.stackexchange.com/questi...

Oberth effect
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth...
More on rocket burns
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/cas...

Sun dive probe
news.nationalgeographic.com/ne...
Other plans (jupiter assists) vs repeat Venus assist:
solarprobe.gsfc.nasa.gov/spp_m...

Solar Probe Plus technical paper:
issfd.org/ISSFD_2014/ISSFD24_P...

Mercury Messenger Trajectory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESSENGE...

Online calculator for orbital velocities, escape velocities, etc:
keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1...

Effective potential (possibly with interactive mathematica notebook?):
physics.oregonstate.edu/portfo...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect...
phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/phy51/...

Equations for elliptical orbit speeds, etc:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis

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