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Re: (meteorobs) phantom-orbits
> an article in Wired magazine in which the architect of a prominent
> space probe said that the craft would be placed in a so-called
> "phantom-orbit": an orbit around no mass, only space.
That was O. Morton, The Art of Falling, a Wired feature at
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.12/farquhar.html (4 pages).
An excellent article (esp. the stuff about Farquhar chasing nurses
in a hospital before becoming a space navigation genius :-). But let
me add that some months ago there was a serious proposal (reported in
the magazine Space News) that some Lagrange Points might actually make
interesting targets for *manned* missions. There was also a nice review in
http://www.space.com:80/space/invisible_planets_000119.html
Daniel
http://www.astro.uni-bonndot de/~dfischer/mirror.html
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