A “direct intercept” like you’re suggesting gives you very little time to take any measurements even if we had a vehicle standing by. For now it’s not the kind

A “direct intercept” like you’re suggesting gives you very little time to take any measurements even if we had a vehicle standing by. For now it’s not the kind of mission NASA has chosen to fund just in case they got the opportunity to scramble a one time fly-by mission to collect a few seconds of data on an object that happened to streak past us this millennia.