Re: speaking of comets

Lynndel Humphreys wrote:
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> Would it be possible for a Voyager class probe to hitch a ride on a comet?
> Deep space or what?

   What does it mean to 'hitch a ride?'

   The probe would have to match its velocity to rendezvous with it, in
which case it's following the same path, regardless of the comet's
presence.

   The only benefit would be to study the comet itself, and/or use its
mass as protection from the Sun at perihelion.

   It's not as if you could grab it going by at a major difference in
velocity, like one of those old-style railroad mailbag pickups....


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