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Hint 9

The new orbit has semimajor axis $30.5 R_E$ and eccentricity 0.967. Using the formula relating speed at pericentre to eccentricity and the speed in a circular orbit (which you can obtain from the expression for the orbital energy), you should find that the required fractional increase in speed is 0.403.



Mike Birse
2000-03-31