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Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System

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306 points gammarator | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 03:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source

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renrutal ◴[03 Jul 25 13:16 UTC] No.44454743[source]▶
It would be neat if we could take a hitchhike with it.

Probably only Project Orion would be able to catch up to its current 60kms/s speed by October.

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1. Klathmon ◴[03 Jul 25 17:00 UTC] No.44457071[source]▶
Given it's passing retrograde (is that even the right way to say that?), would that make it easier to catch up and intercept?

Assuming you don't want to do anything but fly by or smash into it