ESA Selects Targets for Asteroid Deflection Test

Vandil X writes "The European Space Agency has announced that it has selected two candidate asteroid targets for a planned mission to impact an asteroid in an attempt to deflect the asteroid off course by a measurable amount. The mission, dubbed "Don Quijote," will send two spacecraft to their final choice asteroid. One craft will impact the asteroid while the other will observe the asteroid before and after the collision. The mission craft and target selection are expected to be finalized sometime in 2007."

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Re:NO DADDY NO

[danielrose]

Sorry, you are wrong.
The president says it's NUKULAR, not nuclear, and he must be right, because you'd look like a real dickhead saying NUKULAR instead of nuclear time after time if it was the wrong word.