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“Quite close” is relative, given how ridiculously vast space is. The chances that they fire blindly out into space and just happen to hit Ceres seems so unlikely as to be basically impossible.



True, but it's not like you have to hit an object head on, but merely pass within it's gravitational field which is far bigger.


Pass within its gravitational field at a slow enough relative speed for capture. Remains exceeeeeeedingly unlikely.


Nonetheless people are asking SpaceX for data to calculate the probability because they seem to think it's higher than 0 because of the unplanned trajectory.




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