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Your talking about an extremely powerful Orion from what I can tell: intercepting something out near Jupiter for example takes a minimum of 1-2 years even with energetic transfer orbits with delta vs of 30-40 km, which is the extreme of Orion designs I have seen. 10 days of continuous firing...

I'm not sure you really have the time to do that to such a large object. Something that size weighs something like 100 trillion tons.

Tomorrow, a fast moving object out past Jupiter is noticed, that seems to have a fairly high chance of impact (10%, with large error bars) in 5 years. The object is massive, about 50 km wide and moving very quickly, suggesting an origin outside the solar system. The object is predicted to be...