[AR] Re: Catching Oumuamua
- From: Nels Anderson <nels.anderson@xxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 09:34:59 -0500
On 3/1/21 1:00 AM, Henry Spencer wrote:
A big-budget planetary mission isn't going anywhere unless you can
convince a Decadal Review to make it their first priority, which isn't
going to happen for this.
Maybe a more realistic objective would be to design a mission to be
ready to go the next time something like 'Oumuamua is spotted.
2I/Borisov was spotted in 2019, and there should be more coming as
synoptic survey telescopes come on line.
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