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A Japanese probe began descending towards an asteroid on Thursday on a mission to blast a crater into its surface and collect material that could shed light on the solar system's evolution.
[...]The so-called "small carry-on impactor", a cone-shaped device capped with a copper bottom, will emerge from Hayabusa2 on Friday, after the probe has arrived just 500 metres above the asteroid Ryugu.
The probe will then depart the area, and the impactor is programmed to explode 40 minutes later, propelling the copper bottom towards Ryugu, where it should gouge a crater into the surface of the asteroid that sits 300 million kilometres from Earth.
Meh, not the same without a plucky crew of oil drillers.
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Making a Dent: Japan Probe Prepares to Blast Asteroid
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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes. He seemed to enjoy it ...
(Score: 4, Funny) by choose another one on Friday April 05 2019, @03:42PM
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That bloody dinosaur planet is at it again - probe just blew a hole in fred's wine shed
Shoot all of them, maybe just one rock at a time, one kept 'em quiet for a while last time didn't it?
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