Catching Up With a Comet
Do recent studies of interstellar comets give us clues as to whether a mission to Borisov or Oumuamua is feasible?
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4 min readApr 23, 2020
Towards the end of 2019, Borisov (C-2019 Q4) made its way through our solar system, crossing the ecliptic and approaching within 2 astronomical units of the sun. A recent study of the trajectory of the comet published in Nature…