Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content.

Deep Impact Nasa to fire projectile at Comet!

Posted by geeknews at 2:05 AM on December 15, 2004

I guess I am into domesday scenarios, and think if you are going to spend money to fire a projectile at a comet then why not fire a nuke at it and see what effect that has. Instead they plan on making a mini crater on the comet and looking at the dust. I suppose a nuke would defeat their plan to look at the dust created by the impact. [ZDNet]

Posted in Science

«
»

One Comment

  1. From smcpoland at 3:05 am on December 15, 2004

    What is more interesting is what will they do when they actually find that by hitting it, it turns round in direct line of fire with us.

    Bit of a kick in the ass that one I think….