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Originally Posted by glend
The problem here as I see it, is one of mankind's arrogance in thinking a mission like this may not eventually result in disastrous unintended consequences. Sure you change it's motion slightly, and then it bumps something it may not have ever hit, say twenty years later, which causes something else, etc. How far out have they modelled all the consequences?
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I am sure they would have done their homework.
Orbital mechanics etc is a well studied discipline a proven by the numerous
Space craft plying the the inner solar system over the years.
Remember the old "for every action there is a reaction" and this can be measured to just about the enth degree.
By the way they have sent over the last ten years a few impactors into comets and asteroids,so would have some idea as to what is required and how it is carried out.
