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Re:NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from ... by mcguire on Monday December 07, 2015 @10:18PM (#10694554)
The largest thing NASA has moved above low earth orbit since the early '70s is, what, Galileo? How many orders of magnitude are there between G and your asteroid?
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Re:NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from ... by ethbro on Monday December 07, 2015 @10:58PM (#10694698)
To paraphrase Shawshank Redemption, "That's all it takes really, pressure, and time."

With enough time, and high enough specific impulse/in place fuel extraction, you can move anything.

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Re:NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from ... by celias on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @06:14AM (#10695771)
Cassini was launched in 1997 and weighed over two and a half times what Galileo did (5712kg vs 2223kg). Still several orders of magnitude less than an asteroid.
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