IP: NASA environmental destruction [for a snowy cold day djf]

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

from http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo


Galileo Amazing Fact of the Day


Galileo's planetary flybys have allowed the spacecraft to speed up,
at the expense of the planet slowing down slightly. How much were Venus
and the Earth slowed by Galileo's gravity assists? In a billion years,
Venus will be 1.6 inches behind where it would have been in its orbital
path if Galileo hadn't interfered. The Earth will be 5.2 inches
behind (a 2.9 inch lag from the first Earth gravity assist, and
the other 2.3 inches from the second assist). 


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No doubt this will eventually cause Earth and Venus to fly out
of the Solar System.