Finding a New Route to the Moon using Paintings

Year: 2009 Authors: Edward Belbruno

Core claim

Brush strokes in an intuitive painting exposed celestial dynamics that computer simulations later verified as useful lunar transfer trajectories.

Topics

ballistic capture, chaotic trajectories, paintings, celestial mechanics

Domains

celestial mechanics, chaos theory, invariant manifolds, painting, oil on canvas, visual intuition

Methods

intuitive painting, computer simulation, trajectory analysis

Media

oil on canvas, brush strokes, computer models

Source status

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