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I was always wondering how far they knocked it off its original path. As in, if it were on a path to hit Earth and we impacted it at the same distance away, how

• russdill 4y ago
  Basically no change in it's orbit around the sun, it's gravitationally bound to a much larger asteroid.
  • dtgriscom 4y ago
    ... but the pair's orbit was changed by some amount. How much?
• zamadatix 4y ago
  Even assuming it wasn't part of a larger system it's hard to give a useful answer for this without a specific orbit and timing. The Δv here was ~2 cm/s which isn't much but what that means in encounter distance depends on the other variables more than it depends on the impact. If you've ever tried to set up encounters or dock in KSP you know what I mean!