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rosser on April 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear w...

I'm not sure how much I like the idea of using the Earth for a gravity assist on a nuclear waste payload. Getting that one wrong (anyone remember the meters vs. feet debacle with a Mars probe?) wouldn't end well...

skrause on April 14, 2015 [–]

Well, we have done at least one Earth gravity assist with a nuclear payload in the past. There also was some criticism about it back then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens#Plutoni...

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