10 pointsby mpweiher3 hours ago1 comment
  • jjk1662 hours ago
    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.
    • bdbdbdb2 hours ago
      What about a solar sail?