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Originally Posted by Joeschmoe

Not to be too big of a downer but i just did some calculations. Using the biggest asteroid and the mass of the galactic core of 1 million suns (best estimate). The force generated is 2 newtons. Or the same force that the earth exerts on one of those half pint chocolate milk containers.

Considering the mass of the largest asteroid is. 9.1*10^20 kgs. Or 910,000,000,000,000,000,000 kgs. I don't think it's going anywhere fast. In fact it would be accelerating at a rate of 7.91*10^-24 km/second^2. Or 0.00000000000000000000000132 km/h^2. It would take 1.24*10^23 hours to get to 1km/hour or 14,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to accelerate to 1km/hour. That being many orders of magnitude longer than the universe has been in existence.

However, if one is already headed somewhere near us, and anything happens at all to affect the trajectory of that one, then all your calculations are out the window.