Your right Chuck. But maybe at that smaller size of the asteroid or the
distance it goes down. It is an interesting question.Sent from my Verizon,
Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: charles jacobson
<jacobsonc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 5/3/23 8:31 PM (GMT-08:00) To:
tas-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: justafew@xxxxxxxxx, jerryarmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tas-list] Dart mission I am a bit confused as to why the slowing of
the little satellite around the larger asteroid led to an orbit that is smaller
and has a shorter period. Generally orbital velocities have to speed up the
closer an object is to its massive partner. Venus’s orbital speed is > than
Earth’s for instance. My physics book related the orbital velocity as V= sq
root(GM/R) where G is the universal gravitational constant, M mass of the
central body and R the radius of the orbiting body. Chuck Jacobson