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What is the fastest speed relative to the Sun that Jupiter can eject an object onto a hyperbolic trajectory?
I imagine you'd want the object to be traveling as fast as possible when it encountered Jupiter. This would give it a velocity at just under Solar escape velocity as it approached Jupiter.
More important to the actual answer, I'd love to know a formula that took planet mass and planet-sun distance as inputs and produced a max ejection velocity.
I imagine you'd want the object to be traveling as fast as possible when it encountered Jupiter. This would give it a velocity at just under Solar escape velocity as it approached Jupiter.
More important to the actual answer, I'd love to know a formula that took planet mass and planet-sun distance as inputs and produced a max ejection velocity.