Anders Sandberg wrote:
> Sounds like a fun idea. The trick would be to get them into a
> collision course; changing orbit would be rather slow, so you still
> need plenty of warning to change the inclination and phase to get a
> hit. [and other sensible criticisms]
For a start, you put them in different planes! Say, ten or thirty of
'em in ten planes with icosahedral symmetry.
Given the engines likely to be used for herding the asteroids, how long
could it take to shift one into a suitable orbit? (Remember there's a
wide variety of such orbits.) Weeks?
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