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awb on Feb 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to...

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.

ceejayoz on Feb 7, 2018 [–]

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

awb on Feb 7, 2018 | [–]

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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