On Sep 22, 2:10*am, Andre Lieven wrote:
On Sep 22, 1:00*am, Pat Flannery wrote:

On 9/21/2011 12:20 PM, Andre Lieven wrote:

In order to do that, *one would have to know where it IS first*...

They might spot it in one of those photographic searches looking for
small NEOs, like one of the Saturn S-IVB stages was spotted that way:
Earth:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3

Indeed they might. The point is that until they do so, using an
instrument such as Hubble would be a 100% waste of time.

Andre

Well they did image and track a apollo booster that accidently got
into heliospheric orbit........ so its possible..

retrieval could be done by a unmanned robotic craft with a docking
probe left over from a apollo display, assumng snoopy isnt tumbling..

the vehicles primary mission could be somewhere else. also a good
first test to redirect a asteroid .......

involves tracking , manuvering docking and redirecting.

snoopy might first get relocated to a high earth orbit.......

its easy top say impossible but sometimes creative solutions can be
found.

scientifically the study of very long term space exposure on such a
well documented vehicle could be useful