07-21-2018, 08:50 AM
This may seem trite and trivial...but it's been bugging me for years....I just hadn't gotten around to asking...but, The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has been giving the Hohmann Transfer Orbits for every combination of pairs of planets from Mercury to Pluto. I wondered why? Who is going to use all that information? If Gregory Benford needed information on one of those orbits, he could probably calculate it himself.
Not that I'm really complaining. Maybe there is some value to it. I haven't looked at the latest edition, and I'm sure the information is online by now...it just seemed like a strange use of hundreds of pages. I hope you can explain it. Thanks.
Not that I'm really complaining. Maybe there is some value to it. I haven't looked at the latest edition, and I'm sure the information is online by now...it just seemed like a strange use of hundreds of pages. I hope you can explain it. Thanks.