"The glass is half full, baby," Doob said. "The glass is half full. You lit that candle. It worked. You bounced off the atmosphere. You’re a hell of a lot closer to us—Konrad is saying your apogee is definitely sublunar." Meaning that Ymir would turn around and start falling back toward the Earth before reaching the orbit of the former moon. "This is huge," he added. "It is going to change the picture politically."