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Old December 7th 08, 04:46 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
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Default Comet from another star?

On Dec 5, 12:50*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
wrote:
On a more serious note, devoid of any anime nonsense, it seems to me
that the energy requirements to intercept an extrasolar comet on a
hyperbolic trajectory would be too great.
Too much fuel would be needed to even catch up to it.


This one has entered a short period solar orbit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96P/Machholz

Pat


A better source for this information:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=96P%2FMachholz+1

I do not trust Wikipedia for anything as any bozo can edit it.