A Grand Slam: In a winning move, NASA probe burrows into a comet

Sam Wormley wrote:

[Planetary Science]
A Grand Slam: In a winning move, NASA probe burrows into a comet

A 372-kilogram copper projectile released from NASA's Deep Impact
spacecraft successfully slammed into Comet Tempel 1 on July 4,
producing some heavenly fireworks.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050709/bob7.asp

Bottom line: Comet dust is more like talcum powder than beach sand.
The thing is poorly consolidated but fairly dense.

The next step is to play with cumulative dust surface area and piddle
about selectively adsorbed MOLECULES OF LIFE. Maybe the cure for AIDS
or cancer is on a comet. Let's get NIH in space - they've got
tremendously fat budgets for psychologists to endlessly videotape
unhappy people.

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