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>prohibitively expensive to accelerate to interstellar speeds.

But if it's on a hyperbolic trajectory, then it would be just as hard to get to it as to escape the solar system, no?

I wonder what the theoretical distribution of speeds (relative to Earth) of random interstellar debris would be.




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