Recent content by PeterFries

The problem with a railgun as the potential deflection system is that if you have railgun tech already in space, couldn't that instead be used as the lunar-targetting weapon, skipping a step in my scenario? Hmmmm. I was hoping for a tech solution not too far removed from current know-how...

Ha, I'm no Heinlein or Niven -- I was just trying to gauge the believability of the plot device at the heart of my story, that a Near Earth Object could be weaponized by a repurposed system meant to divert such objects. I was surprised when I found this thread because the original poster's...

Thanks for the response! Is it conceivable that the "nudge" could be done remotely, via some sort of small near-NEO nuclear detonation? I don't need a Bruce Willis team for my story, and the intended lunar target is relatively small, nowhere near the size of a city or anything, so my...

Please excuse me for bumping this half-year old thread, but I'm working on a science fiction story with a similar premise to the idea being proposed here and was curious about the feasibility of my premise (I'm no physicist or mathematician)... What if, rather than diverting an asteroid or...