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“Quite close” is relative, given how ridiculously vast space is. The chances that they fire blindly out into space and just happen to hit Ceres seems so unlikel
by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
“Quite close” is relative, given how ridiculously vast space is. The chances that they fire blindly out into space and just happen to hit Ceres seems so unlikely as to be basically impossible.
- everdev 9y agoTrue, but it's not like you have to hit an object head on, but merely pass within it's gravitational field which is far bigger.
- ceejayoz 9y agoPass within its gravitational field at a slow enough relative speed for capture. Remains exceeeeeeedingly unlikely.
- everdev 9y agoNonetheless people are asking SpaceX for data to calculate the probability because they seem to think it's higher than 0 because of the unplanned trajectory.