The story
From litho- (“pertaining to stone”) + capture, coined as a pun on aerocapture and lithobraking.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lithocapture
Today it means: A form of lithobraking in which a spacecraft or other object on a hyperbolic trajectory inbound to a planet, moon, asteroid, or other celestial body is decelerated by impact with the surface of the body. Full definition →