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

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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