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Re:Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth by ceejayoz on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:36AM (#33706881)
> What's the hard part here?

Detecting, then catching a small object, in space, traveling at 10-20 thousand kilometers per hour.

Much easier to go out to an asteroid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx

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Re:Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth by ericbarrett on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:01AM (#33707166)
Even faster than that! Meteors have a relative velocity between 11 and 71 km/s (40,000-255,000 kph). Anything faster than that would be interstellar, which is uncommon but not unheard of.
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Re:Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth by perihelions on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:32AM (#33707590)
Pedantically, the lower limit of velocity relative to low-orbiting satellites is around 3 km/s. The 11 - 71 km/s figure is relative to the ground.
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Re:Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth by dekhn on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:15PM (#33713827)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/mission/index-ae... (but that's for comets)
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