• NASA deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential Earth threat
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-asteroid/nasa-deep-space-probe-reaches-asteroid-deemed-potential-earth-threat-idUSKBN1O308Z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ITYgIMaI01SscnZLiNB1_C5CItk19VLmhHfzbCzp0Cbjs_Ic4NOcw4Fs
From that stage, the spacecraft will begin gradually tightening its orbit around the asteroid, spiraling to within just 6 feet of its surface. Osiris-Rex will then extend its robot arm to snatch a sample of Bennu’s terrain in a “touch-and-go” maneuver set for July 2020. The absolute madmen. I had no idea we had the technology to do this.
That pic reminds me of how crazy the tech for cleanrooms can get.
So it wouldn't be appreciated if I emptied my vacuum cleaner there?
they'd probably promptly empty it back into your ass
You probably could get the same result if you followed your mum's weekly advice to clean your room as well
We can send a probe to an asteroid that might destroy earth but are powerless to stop the impending government shutdown that will stop the probe that is trying to save the earth.
If you somehow got past all the security checks to get in there, I'd say you've earned the right to ruin million-dollar instruments with household contaminants.
*boop* Asteroid upgraded to definite Earth threat!
Finally.
Hopefully the asteroid is running for the 2020 election.
I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all!
A friend of mine who was one of the system engineers on this craft has been tracking the entire mission since conception around about 2014. Bonkers that we're landing and getting so close to asteroids and comets nowadays.
How the fuck do you even stay just 6ft above a bumpy rock boy like that? It's not like there''s someone right there with it to be that precise.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/012/978/images_(2).jpg But more like computers to be precise
I assume it maps the surface first before tightening the orbit that close, so that way it knows the exact spot it needs to scoop since it would likely be the part most protruding around the orbital plane
Japan already did it 8 years ago Hayabusa
Interesting, first news story I've seen that detailed the 1 in 2600 chance that it'll impact with the earth in about 150 years' time. Most news outlets I've seen have mostly been focusing on the organic compounds.
The good news is that it looks like we developed a lot of time before it happens and that we'll more than likely be ready, though from the past "near collisions" I suspect we're due to another miss with those odds. Sorry but I'd sooner let my old possibly cyber-enhanced ass give out on me in my bed than watch a giant rock hit us and ruin all we could accomplish from that point.
I think Hayabusa 2, JAXA's sample return mission, has a cooler way of doing it - they're going to fire an anti-tank round at the target asteroid in order to obtain a deep surface sample. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/226797/01ec2f26-0485-4223-8c59-e954ffa23f93/image.png
That was 8 years ago?!??!?!?!?! No way, they did it like last year. Right?!
last year was Hayabusa 2. japan has already done this twice
Scientists estimate there is a one-in-2,700 chance of the asteroid slamming catastrophically into Earth 166 years from now. That probability ranks Bennu No. 2 on NASA’s catalog of 72 near-Earth objects potentially capable of hitting the planet Wh--what's number 1?
Please #1 be 10,000,000 years away.
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=410777 Try the exact window as the #2, but just shifted a couple years.
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