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Depending on a size, probably on the order of tens of thousand.

Comets in the Oort cloud take very little energy to put on a collision orbit, the Sun barely holds them gravitationally, orbital speeds in the Oort cloud are measured in _meters_ per second. So they require (relatively) little energy to put them into a required orbit. It might be doable with just regular thermonuclear charges.

It will then take these comets more than a thousand years to "fall" from the Oort cloud.



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