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jjk166today at 6:57 PM1 replyview on HN

For reference, if Didymos were on a collision course with earth, we'd need to our interceptor to hit it about 16,000 years prior to impact to get it to miss Earth, or more realistically a substantially larger kinetic impactor/ swarm of impactors.


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bdbdbdbtoday at 7:06 PM

What about a solar sail?