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Target practice.



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Thank you
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Who knows, in a couple of decades from now that Assteroid will be found to have wobbled in it's trajectory and now on a collision course with the Earth since Nasa hit it and changed it's future path..
 
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NASA’s asteroid-smashing spacecraft worked—and produced a few surprises

All the excess celebrations aside, that is pretty cool. Well, unless we hit something and put it on a worse course!

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You just better hope they don't launch one of those things aimed at Uranus.
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Originally posted by HRK:
...Assteroid...
he he
 
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Witticism pending...
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Originally posted by Dwill104: They did. A small cube satellite was deployed a couple of weeks ago to follow behind at about 30 miles and took pictures of the impact.


Thank you. I'll search.

Dan



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