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And you're welcome. And anything passing by another object, the closer it is, the better because gravity also responds to the inverse square law, the further out you'll be for a guess. But gravity, it's not really a force in itself. It's a depression in space-time. Anything that has mapping, the planets, the stars, it's because of depression in space-time. And think of it, I always use this as an example. It's kind of a crude example, but I kind of get the picture across. If you had a blanket and you had four people hold a corner of the blanket and put something heavy in the middle of it, like a chaffel rope or a bowling ball, it would form a depression in the center of the blanket. Put a smaller ball in and kind of give it a bit of a push around the edge of the blanket, you'll see it kind of spiral in towards the bigger object in the center of the blanket. And that's basically how gravity works. It causes depression in space-time and objects follow this depression. And if something's traveling fast enough, as it's traveling past its depression, that depression acts as a bit of a slingshot. And it adds a little bit more momentum and energy to that object and that the object has enough velocity, it escapes that gravitational well and it's come away with a little bit more speed. So that's what's happening with 31 slash Atlas. It's getting this gravitational effect. They do it here. Scientists do it here when they're sending spacecraft into space. Just talking.