<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 12:56 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Have you accounted for the Oberth effect? On April 13, 2029, it will be <br>
only 13,600 km from Earth and travelling very fast. Any impulse that we <br>
can give it on that day would have the greatest effect on its kinetic <br>
energy.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The plan involves taking years to build up, from a seed planted during close approach, and then take a year or more to give more collective impulse than a single slingshot could. In 2029 there wouldn't yet be anything to give significant impulse with.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The problem with solar sail is that Apophis tumbles and flips around its <br>
three axes of rotation. How can you attach a sail to the asteroid <br>
without it getting tangled and twisted?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe make a gyroscope or three out of further Apophis materials to despin Apophis? </div></div></div>