Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4196571-20140218232552/@comment-77.191.78.212-20140226194014

Protostealth. Your last comment is actually untrue, because the round fired by the chandelier could be fired on an angle (and curve (using the magnetic guidance)) that would let it actually achieve orbit. From there on it could simply orbit the earth until it is alligned with the asteroid. Using the curve of the earth combined with its magnetic (gravity) field. It would neither lose speed or miss (assuming that they can calculate the right trajectory / firing sped etc.).

This is off course only possible if the railgun is fired soon enough...