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There's probably better candidates. For any two objects in orbits around a common body (like the sun) to match their orbits, they need to have their locations
by mabbo 4y ago
There's probably better candidates.
For any two objects in orbits around a common body (like the sun) to match their orbits, they need to have their locations match and their velocity, at the same time. To collide, you only need your location to match.
One way to do this is to get to a matching location and then do a hard change of velocity so that the asteroid is now in a stable orbit. But that's a lot of energy for a rock with a mess measured using scientific notation.
There are better candidates out there where we could make a tiny change to their orbit and have them be captured naturally due to relative velocities being much closer to matching. Still a lot of energy, but a lot less.
- hd95489 4y agoI’m assuming it’s too risky to let them clip the atmosphere to provide the delta v?