Grab that asteroid.

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What you need is a high tech net, one that stretches to dissipate the energy
but does not spring back, dissipating the energy into heat instead. The
craft this would be mounted on would need a fairly large short lived
thrusters though to counteract the energy...

So, the net would need to be made of unobtainium. ;-)

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer