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   From: EngrBohn@GeeMAIL.noEE.com   
      
   Good morning,   
      
   Hail, Michael Smith!  We who are about to post salute you.   
      
   [...]   
   > The other problem is that an initial impulse from the surface can not   
   > result in an orbit which does not intersect the surface. To achive   
   > orbit the golf ball would have to make a circularisation burn (or be   
   > whacked by another golf club) after the first half an orbit.   
      
   Bounce it off the (solar)windmill ;-)   
      
   Take care,   
   cb   
      
   --   
   Christopher A. Bohn                        ____________|____________   
   http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bohn/        ' ** ** " (o) " ** ** '   
      "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!"   
                                              - Charles Babbage   
      
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