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Nah. When it was discovered, there was a talk at JPL on how to intercept it. You can generate out-of-plane motion by slingshotting off Jupiter. You can arrive
by jvanderbot 6y ago
Nah. When it was discovered, there was a talk at JPL on how to intercept it. You can generate out-of-plane motion by slingshotting off Jupiter. You can arrive with it (or rather speed past), but you can't land or sample it with today's tech.
Also, there have been some studies since on it. https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/constellations/constellations.html https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/constellations/conste...
And lots of people got in on the action with their own studies: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=intercept+interstellar+asteroid https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=intercept+interstellar+...