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The largest thing NASA has moved above low earth orbit since the early '70s is, what, Galileo? How many orders of magnitude are there between G and your asteroid?


To paraphrase Shawshank Redemption, "That's all it takes really, pressure, and time."

With enough time, and high enough specific impulse/in place fuel extraction, you can move anything.


Cassini was launched in 1997 and weighed over two and a half times what Galileo did (5712kg vs 2223kg). Still several orders of magnitude less than an asteroid.




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