Normally I’d think this was cool. But, wasn’t there this movie where they blew up a comet and really bad things happened? Well, take solace in that one of the meteorites did hit Paris [the city, not Hilton. She was on her knees so it missed her by a mile.].
National GeographicNASA engineers are set to launch their Deep Impact space mission tomorrow. The space shot aims to smash an 820-pound (370-kilogram) projectile into a comet on July 4, 2005.
“We expect to provide some great fireworks,” engineer Rick Grammier said at a recent news conference. Grammier is the Deep Impact project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
If all goes as planned, a flyby spacecraft will shoot a projectile about the size of a trash can into the surface of a frozen ball of ice and rock, comet Tempel 1, creating a crater the size of a football stadium.
