NASA Unveils Plans to Smash Projectile into Comet

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NASA Unveils Plans to Smash Projectile into Comet

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA insists it's a coincidence.

Six years from now, a spacecraft named Deep Impact will fire a 1,100-pound copper bullet at the nucleus of a comet, with the aim of blasting out a crater the size of a football field and as deep as a seven-story building..........

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38	Big Bang machine could destroy Earth techstocks.com	Urlman	-	7/18/1999
37	Hahahahahah... "Strange" is simply one of the characteristics of qua	Level Head	-	7/18/1999
36	Agreed. Wow. The universe teetering on the brink if these guys create a black h	DoubleOddBuck	-	7/18/1999
35	NASA is like a bunch of kids in a playpen next to these guys: sunday-times.co.	Tom Clarke	-	7/18/1999
34	I am not a fan of NASA's current behavior, in general. The R&D, such a	Level Head	-	7/15/1999
33	NASA can do things the private sector is not set up to do, but it would be good	Tom Clarke	-	7/15/1999
32	<i>Don't we already know the composition of asteroids and comets thro	Level Head	-	7/15/1999
31	Don't we already know the composition of asteroids and comets through spect	Tom Clarke	-	7/14/1999
30	I have figured out how to change earth's orbit, and it wouldn't cost as	James F. Hopkins	-	7/14/1999
29	<i>Just why are we spending 250 million dollars to change a comet's o	Level Head	-	7/13/1999
28	Jeff .. Just <i>why</i> are we spending 250 million dollars to cha	Triffin	-	7/12/1999
27	Further? Better yet.....<g> GZ	GROUND ZERO™	-	7/12/1999
26	<<I think it will be interesting to see what happens when a 1,100 pound p	VBroady	-	7/12/1999
25	Space is further.	X Y Zebra	-	7/12/1999
24	Good! That makes a lot of scents...	Father Terrence	-	7/12/1999
23	nope.	X Y Zebra	-	7/12/1999
22	We all like blowing up stuff, but can't NASA think of something better to d	Tom Clarke	-	7/11/1999
21	Why not just round up the usual suspects and put them all on that stage coach	GROUND ZERO™	-	7/11/1999
20	Oh the poor hound. Are you now "hounding" him? Ha-ha...	Father Terrence	-	7/11/1999
19	I think it will be interesting to see what happens when a 1,100 pound projecti	DoubleOddBuck	-	7/11/1999
18	OK OK bad idea. Besides, if mining were successful it would crash the platinum	Tom Clarke	-	7/11/1999
17	Bad advice, it would give them entertainment and would distract them from their	X Y Zebra	-	7/11/1999
16	Yes, one of the main ones of the <i>lot</i>	X Y Zebra	-	7/11/1999
15	Speaking of the lot of them, Lott is another excellent candidate..... GZ	GROUND ZERO™	-	7/11/1999
14	Charles--Attaching rocket to an asteroid would be possible though expensive. Di	Druss	-	7/11/1999

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