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Nasa Develops Space Comet Harpoon

Posted December 15, 2011 8:15 AM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

US space agency Nasa is building a harpoon designed to recover material from comets to avoid the risks involved with landing on them.

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34point5 Guru Join Date: May 2010 Location: in optimism Posts: 4050 Good Answers: 130	#1 Re: Nasa Develops Space Comet Harpoon 12/15/2011 11:06 PM
	"We had to bolt it to the floor, because the recoil made the whole testbed jump after every shot," __________________ There is no sin except stupidity. (Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900))
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