Recent content by vicvalis

Yes, in the original, it was somehow a soft enough landing to survive in one piece, but still big enough to make a crater. Other people have written about this in the past, mentioning that the acceleration (for other dates, the exact dates are up for interpretation), could have killed anything...

You know, I think you've about hit the nail on the head for me. I'd be writing from the point of view of a historian looking back on events, writing for the average reader (thus, not needing exact details). If I describe it generally as you did, with a more extreme elliptical orbit than a a...

The way I'm framing it, I will be writing something to the effect of "if the departure from Mars happened on February 22, and arrival at Earth was on March 7, then the object would have had to travel X miles at x mph to complete the trip in 104 days, a difficult but not impossible trip." And I...

I'm revisiting some much older fiction, and the original author thought such a trip during opposition was the best time, as at that moment the two planets were so close together. He didn't take into account the motion of the two planets. So in this case, I'd have the object accelerating to catch...

Okay, thanks, I could see the orange line in my head as I made the post, and understood that was the distance I was looking for, and needed the speed I would need to travel it in 104 days. Now, after plugging away on the internet, I have finally found that I'm looking to calculate the Hohmann...

First, i think this is the correct place to ask this question. So the story is that I'm working on a piece of fiction that I want to be as accurate as possible. One part of it involves an object that travels from Mars to earth. This would have been between February 22, 1901 (beginning of...

Between several unrelated non-fiction works that have been published or are in the process, I've worked on fiction to keep the creative juices flowing. I have a project I've started a half-dozen time in the last ten years, now I'm taking another stab at it. Might have something coherent before I...