English
lithocapture
From litho- (“pertaining to stone”) + capture, coined as a pun on aerocapture and lithobraking.
The story
From litho- (‘pertaining to stone’) + capture, coined as a pun on aerocapture and lithobraking.
Today it means
noun 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.
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Etymograph / lithocapture