Scarecrow71

That was exactly it. Thanks for the (gravity) assist!

So, I'm new to the forums, but not to KSP. I've been playing for about a year now, and I consider myself to be "meh" in the game. I have a tendency to just go for it, even if I know things will end badly. Que Sera, and all, right? Anyhow, I've been lurking and searching when something comes up, and for the most part I haven't needed help that I can't find. But today I saw something odd. I've got 1.8.3, and I have MechJeb 2 installed. I used MJ to create a transfer node to Duna, and it created and executed just fine. But when I zoomed out to see the new orbit, there was no closest approach marker. I warped to about 1/3 of the way to where the intercept was, and still nothing. So I started to create a node to see what a correction burn would give me, and all of a sudden the orbit showed an encounter. Without moving the node or doing any kind of burn at all. I left things alone, and warped to just inside the encounter, and Duna was right there. I was literally on top of the planet, with a Pe of 10000 km. I know the computer is smarter than I am, but I would kill most days for an encounter this close. Is this just an anomaly that I got lucky with? Or is there something in MechJeb that I need to look at to explain this? I've got no screen shots(which I should have taken), but I was so happy I just landed and saved. If this is just luck, I'll take it after all the bad endings I've put Val and Jeb through.