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Escape Trajectories

Escape Trajectories is a class of orbital paths in celestial mechanics characterized by a spacecraft or celestial body achieving sufficient velocity to overcome the gravitational binding energy of a primary body, thereby transitioning from a bound to an unbound orbit.

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Escape Orbits

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Traversable wormholes: Some simple examples

Matt Visser · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1989 · 670 citations · Full text

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The gravity field of a particle

Charles Galton Darwin · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1959 · 426 citations

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Discrete approximations to optimal trajectories using direct transcription and nonlinear programming

Paul J. Enright, Bruce A. Conway · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 1992 · 380 citations

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Escape from a metastable state

Peter Hänggi · Journal of Statistical Physics · 1986 · 361 citations

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Atmospheric Escape and Evolution of Terrestrial Planets and Satellites

H. Lämmer, James F. Kasting, Éric Chassefière et al. · Space Science Reviews · 2008 · 269 citations

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Authors

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  1. GC
    G. Contopoulos

    Academy of Athens, Greece

    8 publications · 282 citations

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  2. EE
    Euaggelos E. Zotos

    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    8 publications · 170 citations

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  3. DJ
    Daniel J. Scheeres

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    7 publications · 392 citations

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  4. PV
    P. V. E. McClintock

    Lancaster University, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 181 citations

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  5. MI
    M. I. Dykman

    Michigan State University, United States

    5 publications · 154 citations

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Institutions

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  1. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    13 h-index

    22 publications

    658 citations

  2. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

    Thessaloniki, Greece

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    532 citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    892 citations

  5. Ames Research Center

    Mountain View, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    289 citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. University of Pisa

    Pisa, Italy

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    349 citations

  8. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    463 citations

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  1. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

    33 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. Physical Review E

    PRE · 18 publications · 531 citations

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  4. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

    14 publications · 345 citations

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