11. How far away would a passing spaceship have to stay to avoid being sucked into Jupiter's gravity? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

Because spacecraft travel at such high speeds, they can get surprisingly close to heavy gravity. The Galileo space probe traveled 35 orbits around Jupiter, about once every two months, coming as close as 112,000 miles—not including the final orbit where it was purposely plunged into Jupiter and destroyed!

---

Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

Buy This Book Click here