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NASA can't wait to smash spacecraft

keu · 2005-01-03 14:38:18

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/01/01/comet.buster.ap/index.html should be good.

03-01-2005 2:38pm

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/01/01/comet.buster.ap/index.html
should be good.

Mission planners say the energy produced will be like 4.5 tons of TNT going off -- producing a fireworks display for the world's observatories.

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#2 04-01-2005 11:19pm

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do they have a spectroscope on the mother ship ?

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#3 05-01-2005 3:51am

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I dunno, but it does have a hammer.

"As any field geologist knows, in order to understand the object you're looking at, you have to reach out and give it a tap with your hammer," said mission co-investigator Donald Yeomans.

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#4 05-01-2005 1:48pm

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IIRC the Russian mission to the moons of Mars (eaten by the great green gobbler) has a laser to burn off parts of the surface and then the'yd use atomic adsorption or something to do a chemical analysis, then the lander (sled-og ??) would hop to another point and try again.

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#5 05-01-2005 4:31pm

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should have stuck with the phase inverters tbh.

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