planet hop n.

a (short) trip made from one planet to another

Rare.

  • 1948 N. B. Wilkinson Decision Illogical in Astounding Science Fiction July 37/1 page image Neal B. Wilkinson bibliography

    Three months of riotous living at Spaceways’ expense and the rating zooms. One planet hop and it plummets again.

  • 1951 ‘J. Merril’ Survival Ship in Worlds Beyond Jan. 61 page image Judith Merril bibliography

    Because it wasn’t just another planet hop. It wasn’t just like the hundreds of other takeoffs. It was the Survival, the greatest spaceship ever engineered.

  • 1997 H. E. McCurdy Space & the American Imagination viii. 195 page image

    Scientists construct a space ark to carry forty humans and a menagerie of livestock to a planet where they can begin life anew. The technological challenges of such a planet hop are severe.

  • 2011 B. Parris Mars Armor Forged 87 page image Ben Parris bibliography

    Lou checked the mechanisms on his short, flexible, twin-tipped skis, wondering if he’d still have his chops when he landed on Mars for the Games. Olympic trials normally took place about two months prior to Day One. This time the selections had to be made the winter before the planet hop, which was coming up in the launch window of June 2037.

Research requirements

any evidence 1948
Earliest cite

Neal Wilkinson, in Astounding

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