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.