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#1 Posted: Thu, Sep 29 2022, 9:03 AM EST
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https://thealternativereality.com/2022/09/28/in-the-first-planetary-defense-test-nasas-dart-spacecraft-successfully-collided-with-its-target-asteroid/

While the planet is swimming out of Ian...looks like we had some interstellar success!
Gene363 Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, Sep 29 2022, 9:21 AM EST
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Amazing! Thank goodness a lot of engineers are really good at math.
BuckyB93 Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, Sep 29 2022, 9:43 AM EST
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Agreed, pretty cool. What was it last year when they landed a small probe on a comet? Sadly, if I remember correctly, it bounced and landed into a crater shadowed from the Sun so we lost contact with it.
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#4 Posted: Thu, Sep 29 2022, 11:28 AM EST
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Vger will return some day... Mellow
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