You wish to perform a flyby of Mars, enroute to Jupiter. If you are approaching Mars with 2.6km/s of excess velocity, and you wish to achieve a periapsis altitude of 300km:
A) What is the eccentricity of your orbit with respect to Mars?
B) What should your aiming radius be?
C) How much will your flight trajectory be rotated during this flyby?
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