Intercepting Interstellar Objects
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2025
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| author | Snodgrass, Colin Galand, Marina Beth, Arnaud Goetz, Charlotte Donaldson, Abbie Opitom, Cyrielle |
| author_facet | Snodgrass, Colin Galand, Marina Beth, Arnaud Goetz, Charlotte Donaldson, Abbie Opitom, Cyrielle |
| contents | We describe how the ESA Comet Interceptor mission, which is due to launch in 2028/29 to a yet-to-be-discovered target, can provide a conceptual basis for a future mission to visit an Interstellar Object. Comet Interceptor will wait in space until a suitable long period comet is discovered, allowing rapid response to perform a fast flyby of an object that will be in the inner Solar System for only a few years; an enhanced version of this concept could realistically provide the first in situ investigation of a visitor from another star system. |
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arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2512_00492 |
| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Intercepting Interstellar Objects Snodgrass, Colin Galand, Marina Beth, Arnaud Goetz, Charlotte Donaldson, Abbie Opitom, Cyrielle Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics We describe how the ESA Comet Interceptor mission, which is due to launch in 2028/29 to a yet-to-be-discovered target, can provide a conceptual basis for a future mission to visit an Interstellar Object. Comet Interceptor will wait in space until a suitable long period comet is discovered, allowing rapid response to perform a fast flyby of an object that will be in the inner Solar System for only a few years; an enhanced version of this concept could realistically provide the first in situ investigation of a visitor from another star system. |
| title | Intercepting Interstellar Objects |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00492 |