Re:First possible interstellar object detected in our solar ...
by throwanem on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:58AM
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It's doing ~40km/s almost directly away from us. We could launch yesterday and still never catch up. Best we could have done would be a flyby as it passed beneath the ecliptic - not nothing, to be sure, but not nearly close enough for sample return, either.
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