I very much doubt that anything was compromised here. I couldn't find any details, but I would be surprised if there were more than a fraction of a gram of Clyde aboard. Certainly far less than the greeting plaque aboard the Voyager probes, or the audio recording on the later probe whose name escapes me at the moment, and certainly not enough to displace anything worth discussing.
And orbital mechanics aren't that simple. You get a limited choice of low-energy transfer orbits. Within a very broad range it doesn't much matter how much delta-V you have available, you're still going to have to take the same route.
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Date: 2006-01-21 07:58 pm (UTC)And orbital mechanics aren't that simple. You get a limited choice of low-energy transfer orbits. Within a very broad range it doesn't much matter how much delta-V you have available, you're still going to have to take the same route.