Onno Meyer wrote: >> Enter the atmosphere slowly.... > > There is always the unspoken assumption that you're in planetary orbit. > That does not have to be true. Say the shuttle is moving on a slightly > eccentric orbit around the sun, timed to coincide with earth orbit at just > about zero relative velocity. Earth gravity will of course affect the shuttle > (and vice versa, but that's astronomically small).
That would probably work. It would be a pretty slow approach. Better hope your astrogator remembers to account for the Moon in his calculations. :-) -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil." _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
