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2 unusual facts about Gravitational keyhole


Gravitational keyhole

Secondary gravitational keyholes are searched for by importance sampling: Virtual asteroid trajectories (or rather their ‘initial’ values at the time of the first encounter) are sampled according to their likelihood given the observations of the asteroid.

There are even more but smaller secondary keyholes, with trajectories including a less close intermediate encounter (bank shots).



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