Jun 12, 2013
Allowable Eccentricities
I've figured out how to pick out the runs where the orbits of E and B intersect.
Out of about 22,000 runs, the orbits of E and B intersect only 200 times. Here is the contour plot of those doomed Mercury runs.
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from Singapore
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Hong Kong SAR China
seen from China
seen from South Africa
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from Türkiye
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from France
seen from China
seen from Italy
seen from Hong Kong SAR China
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Indonesia
seen from Argentina
Allowable Eccentricities
I've figured out how to pick out the runs where the orbits of E and B intersect.
Out of about 22,000 runs, the orbits of E and B intersect only 200 times. Here is the contour plot of those doomed Mercury runs.