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Old 23-June-2007, 12:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Noclevername View Post
The amount of precision you're talking about may not be possible. Probably, manuvering a spacecraft at solar-orbit speeds to pass through a ring would be as difficult or more so than matching orbits with a planet, not to mention the consequences of hitting the ring itself.
For anything like this, the spacecraft being thrown around would need to be able to correct their course.
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