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| Hop | ||
| Actually "the hop", going above the ecliptic so as to avoid asteroids. |
Getting hit by an asteroid (see meteor hulls ship) is a constant concern for space explorers in the solar system.
| “You’ve got to expect things like this to happen sometimes,” he said. “Bucking the asteroids is risky business. We should’ve taken the hop. It takes longer, but it’s the only safe way. But no, the Captain wanted to make the schedule; he would go through,” Mike spat disgustedly, “and here we are.”
“What’s the ‘hop’?” asked Brandon. “Oh, I take it that friend Mike means that we should have avoided the asteroid belt by plotting a course outside the plane of the ecliptic,” answered Moore. “That’s it, isn’t it, Mike?” |
| Technovelgy from Marooned Off Vesta,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Amazing Stories in 1939 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Extraecliptic Travel Lanes from A Question of Salvage (1939) by Malcolm Jameson.
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