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@Article{Muresan:2012:SLM,
author = "Marian Muresan",
title = "Soft Landing on the {Moon} with {Mathematica}",
journal = j-MATHEMATICA-J,
volume = "14",
number = "??",
pages = "??--??",
month = "????",
year = "2012",
CODEN = "????",
ISSN = "1047-5974 (print), 1097-1610 (electronic)",
bibdate = "Sat Mar 15 08:18:46 MDT 2014",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/mathematicaj.bib",
URL = "http://www.mathematica-journal.com/2012/08/soft-landing-on-the-moon-with-mathematica/",
abstract = "We consider the problem of landing a spacecraft on the
Moon, assuming that aerodynamic and gravitational
forces of bodies other than the Moon are negligible,
and lateral motion can be ignored. Accordingly, the
descent trajectory is vertical, and the thrust vector
is tangent to the trajectory. Because the spacecraft is
near the Moon, we assume that the lunar acceleration of
gravity has the constant value , that the relative
velocity of the exhaust gases with respect to the
spacecraft is constant, and that the mass rate is
constrained by , where is constant and gives the
maximum rate of change of the mass due to burning the
fuel.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
journal-URL = "http://www.mathematica-journal.com/",
}