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Comet Hunting Craft Closes on Target

Posted by michael on from the be-vewwy-vewwy-qwiet dept.

JayBonci writes "According to a CNN article (also ScienceDaily), NASA's comet-hunting craft as part of the Stardust mission has sighted the comet early. This will make it easier to complete their plan of bringing a sample of the dust left behind by the comet's icy tail back home to earth. The mission homepage is here."

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  1. that's alot of excitement by theMerovingian · · Score: 2, Funny


    for something that looks like this.

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    "If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
  2. Re:ISS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    With this design, the craft doesn't have to match orbits with a very small and very fast target - it just has to hit Utah. The latter is considerably easier, especially as there aren't any squishy humans inside who can't tolerate deceleration forces greater than a few dozen G.

    Okay, who is going to hack just a minor correction to orbital parameters to make it hit SCO HQ on re-entry?