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"How about this, let's put aside my hypothesis and just assume that the data they published is true..."

"It can't be true!" Professor Ye interrupted Kang Chi directly, "Then there is definitely something wrong with the data."

This...

Kang Chi finally understood why Li Xinqiang was so anxious just now.

Isn't this too strong?

Kang Chi originally wanted to find a professional astrophysicist to deduce and calculate his conjecture, but he couldn't even accept the basic assumptions, how could he deduce it?

Kang Chi had no choice but to turn his head and wink at Li Xinqiang: "Since Professor Ye thinks this issue is nothing to discuss, why don't we leave it at that today and continue the conversation another day?"

"Another day?"

After hearing this, Ye Hualiang knew that this was a way to get rid of him, and he couldn't help but say excitedly: "You called me all the way here, how can you leave before you have finished talking?"

"But you won't let me speak?"

Ye Hualiang snorted coldly and didn't say anything. Seeing this, Kang Chi said to himself: "Then I will continue."

He picked up a pen and drew a curve on the whiteboard: "This is Lucy's flight trajectory. Through this trajectory, we can roughly infer The center of gravity it receives should be near here. This is the place where Lucy completely lost contact. Assuming this is where it crashed, the diameter of this asteroid is 32.5KM. "

"Impossible." Ye Hualiang couldn't help but interrupt again, "An asteroid with a diameter of 32.5km and a clear position, it is impossible for the telescope to not find anything."

"This is only the highest diameter. It is entirely possible that Lucy has flown to the back of it at this time, so the signal is blocked. The actual crash site may be lower, which also means that the diameter of this celestial body is lower..."

"I know you want to say it's impossible again, because if Lucy's The flight trajectory is real, and the calculated gravity has determined that its mass is about 5.67×10kg. No celestial body in the solar system can reach such a high density..."

Kang Chi took the initiative to say what Ye Hualiang said, leaving him speechless and blushing...

"It is indeed impossible for such a celestial body to be born in the environment of the solar system, but what if it is a meteorite flying from outside the solar system? Or was it placed there by an alien civilization? It is also possible that this asteroid is an invisible planet, with a black body and a low refractive index. There are elements on it that can absorb electromagnetic waves. Such a planet is even a near-Earth asteroid. It is very difficult to observe, not to mention that it is in the orbit of Jupiter..."

"Well, I think you are getting more and more fantastic." Ye Hualiang waved his hand impatiently, "Anyway, I am firmly against exploring the way for unreliable guys like NASA."

"Not exploring the way for NASA, but for ourselves." Kang Chi shook his head, "I don't know if you have noticed that the closest to this mysterious celestial body is an asteroid numbered 46978 outside 0.7AU, and if the vacuum area near it is marked on the map, it is a shape like this..."

Looking at the strip-shaped figure in the picture, Ye Hualiang's expression finally wavered a little.

"You mean... it's actually a dwarf planet clearing its orbit?"

"If it really has a mass of about 5.67×10kg, this is entirely possible." Kang Chi said in a deep voice, "This abnormal strip of vacuum area is proof that it may have been quietly clearing its orbit, but we didn't notice it. But as more and more asteroids are captured by it and its size becomes larger, the elements on its surface will become closer and closer to the asteroids in the solar system, and we will find it sooner or later."

"The question we urgently need to figure out now is what is its orbit? This strip of vacuum area How long did it take to clean up the domain? If this time is very short and it is allowed to continue to develop, will it have any impact on the Sun-Jupiter Lagrange L4 region, Jupiter, Mars, and even the entire solar system? "

After pondering for a moment, Ye Hualiang couldn't help asking: "Even if your assumptions are all true, there are so many dwarf planets that can clean up their orbits by themselves, why do we have to pay attention to it? "

"Because this kind of thing that doesn't look like the solar system is too weird, it makes me feel insecure, and we who do scientific research, shouldn't we maintain a curiosity? "

"..."

Ye Hualiang couldn't help but admit that he was indeed a little moved by what Kang Chi said.

He suddenly remembered a sentence that Academician Wang once said to him when he was studying for a master's degree with Academician Wang: We can't always immerse ourselves in past experiences, even if it is only a one in a billion possibility, we should not give up easily...

What if, NSAS announces nothing wrong?

That is a major discovery that can subvert physics!

At this time, Li Xinqiang, who had been listening to the two people's argument, finally couldn't help asking Kang Chi: "So what do you want to do?"

"Send the probe as soon as possible. Of course, it would be best if there is a ready-made one."

After pondering for a moment, Li Xinqiang looked at Ye Hualiang: "Coincidentally, our Professor Ye happens to be the orbit designer of Tianwen-2..."

"Tianwen-2?"

"Well, it should be approaching 2016HO3 now. If we give up the exploration plan for 2016HO3, it may be possible to modify the orbit to reach that place... But this requires Professor Ye to calculate carefully before we know."

Ye Hualiang couldn't help showing a hesitant look on his face.

On the one hand, it is a comprehensive detection plan that has been planned for several years. On the other hand, it may yield amazing results, but the greater possibility is that it will yield nothing...

"I can't make the decision on this matter." Ye Hualiang quickly figured it out. It seemed that it was not his turn to worry about this matter. "Old Zhang is the chief engineer of Tianwen No. 2. He must agree and then apply. The higher-ups will approve it." It counts.”

"I can communicate with Chief Engineer Zhang, and they will definitely listen to Academician Kang's suggestions, so you can calculate the track first and then decide whether it is successful or not."

"It's quite simple..."

Although Ye Hualiang said so, he had already begun to calculate in his heart. After saying that, he left directly, as if staying here for a moment longer was a waste of time.

Looking at Professor Ye's back, Kang Chi couldn't help but smile and murmured: "The body is still very honest..."

"..."

Compared with the lunar exploration project, which has always been very popular, China's deep space exploration project has not received much attention from the outside world. However, in fact, China's investment intensity and emphasis on deep space exploration projects are not at all compared to the exploration project. The lunar project is low. At the same time, the technical difficulty of deep space exploration and the results achieved so far are not inferior to the lunar exploration project.

The main target of this project before was Mars. As early as 2011, China cooperated with Damao to launch the "Forbes-Soil" and "Yinghuo-1" Mars probes, but they ended up failing to change orbit. .

The failure of the Mars exploration plan had a huge impact on both countries.

It was not until 2016 that China officially approved the restart of the Mars exploration mission.

And this time I’m going it alone.

The time finally arrived in July 2020, and the Long March 5 Yaosi carrier rocket successfully lifted off with Tianwen 1.

After a long journey of ten months, the Tianwen-1 landing rover finally successfully landed in the southern Utopia Planitia of Mars, marking the complete success of China's first Mars exploration mission and becoming the third successful landing in the world. The country of Mars.

The success of Tianwen-1 greatly encouraged China's enthusiasm for deep space exploration. Just one year later, the Tianwen-2 project was successfully approved.

The target this time is the 2016 HO3 near-Earth asteroid located between Mars and the Earth. The plan is to collect some local products from 2016 HO3 and bring them back to the Earth, and then continue the exploration mission to a newly discovered main-belt comet.

It's just that Lucy's incident, coupled with Kang Chi's lobbying, suddenly caused huge variables in the Tianwen-2 detection mission...