Talk:Planetary flyby

The redirect of Planetary flyby to Space probe doesn't seem appropriate: The probe is just the object that does the flyby. --FabC (talk) 19:20, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I've un-redirected the page and created a stub. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:03, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Circa New Horizons[edit]

This article needs to be massively and comprehensively expanded, given New Horizons' 2015 flyby of Pluto. Earth has been flown by; asteroids have been flown by (and at least one rather serendipitously, too!); Jupiter (lending its gravity assist) has been flown by. There may well have been other examples of by-the-way science. kencf0618 (talk) 00:00, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi kencf0618. Be bold! :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 19:03, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I know that the Earth itself has been flown by, but I've forgotten by which space probe. I shall flesh out the article later. kencf0618 (talk) 22:04, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Both Galileo and Cassini flew by Earth for gravity assists. It gave rise to some fear amongst the general public concerning a possible crash and the radioisotope power generators. PiusImpavidus (talk) 10:57, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I've added them. kencf0618 (talk) 03:32, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conversion to a sortable table and general transformation[edit]

Per the suggestion of User:Modest Genius back in July, I'm currently working on converting this list into a sortable table. So far it's going well, and the list is much more useful as a sortable table, but there are some issues. In particular...

 1. The list includes Lunar flybys; since Moon is not a planet I do not believe they should be listed.
 2. The list inconsistently uses the launch date or flyby date; in the table I am making, it lists both the flyby date (default sort) and launch date, so some probes will be listed multiple times for different flybys.
 3. The list includes failed flybys; while I believe it makes sense to include probes which were simply non-functioning during the flyby (or didn't mean to flyby), I believe its makes no sense to include probes which didn't make a flyby at all.

If anyone believes otherwise, say so here. After I finish this conversion I will complete the references before fixing the references already present to fit CS1. Lastly, I'll work on linking the article better from other articles. Of course, unless somebody accomplishes these tasks before me. UnitTwo (talk) 10:49, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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New Horizons flyby of Charon[edit]

The article currently mentions for New Horizons both its Pluto flyby and Charon flyby . While there is still a debate that Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, I believe there are no notable proponents calling Charon to become a planet (for clarification, proponents for Charon to be categorized as a dwarf planet exist. However this article only lists flybys of planets and dwarf planets, not minor planets). Unless there is a good reason for Charon to be shown, it should be dropped from this article. Suggestions? Hms1103 (talk) 07:09, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

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The result of this discussion was to move this page to List of planetary flybys. Consensus was for the move as opposed to the proposed merge, made even more necessary by the section moves recently made to gravity assist. Mdewman6 (talk) 23:11, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This page needs to somehow be reconciled with flyby (spaceflight). While the latter title clearly could be considered more broad than this one, currently both pages have a lot of content overlap. Both pages are also sorely in need of updating and expansion. For now, I propose to merge flyby (spaceflight) into planetary flyby. An alternative would be to move planetary flyby to List of planetary flybys, since that currently represents most of the page's content, and then make flyby (spaceflight) a more general discussion of the topic that has a "main" link to this page. I would like to reach consensus on what is the best path forward. Mdewman6 (talk) 01:58, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support renaming planetary flyby to List of planetary flybys. --Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 13:49, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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