Meaning of lithocapture | Babel Free

Definitions

A form of lithobraking in which a spacecraft or other object on a hyperbolic trajectory inbound to a planet, moon, asteroid, or other celestial body is decelerated by impact with the surface of the body.

countable, humorous, uncountable

Examples

“If the initial orbit is hyperbolic, lithobraking would properly be termed lithocapture.”

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