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Tilting at Asteroids

Posted by michael on from the f-equals-ma dept.

JimPooley writes "The European Space Agency are conducting a feasibility study into a future mission to knock an asteroid off course. A Spanish company are planning the 'Don Quixote' mission to launch a pair of spacecraft at an asteroid. One hits the asteroid, while the other monitors it to see what happens."

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  1. Why doesn't NASA try this? by Radish03 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How hard could it be for them to launch something that will crash into something else?

  2. Cheaper solution... by Izanagi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We could knock the of course with this object

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