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To do this he must break his ship away from our heavy planet, throw her into an elliptical orbit just tangent to the circular orbit of the Randolph and with that tangency so exactly placed that, when he matched speeds, the two ships would lie relatively motionless although plunging ahead at two miles per second.
Para conseguirlo tenía que apartar su nave de nuestro pesado planeta, lanzarla en una órbita elíptica exactamente tangente a la órbita circular del Randolph y con esta tangencia tan exacta, en el momento en que igualase las velocidades, las dos naves permanecieran relativamente inmóviles aunque irían avanzando a unos tres kilómetros por segundo.
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