Assertion: asteroid | /r/CapableOf | slow the asteroid
Facets:
value: at periapsis
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Once an asteroid is on course to encounter a planet with an atmosphere, it is in principle possible to tweak its orbit so that it intercepts the planet's atmosphere, using aerobraking to slow the asteroid at periapsis by dumping some of its kinetic energy into the atmosphere –