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Momentum doesn't really work this way. The only things that change the difficulty of deflecting something are it's mass, and the remaining time to impact.

Having a lot of momentum doesn't change how much force is required to give something a given acceleration until relativistic effects start to matter.

(I guess distance also makes it harder, because you need to travel further to start deflection, but that's not really a momentum thing)




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