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NASA’s Asteroid Plan Is BORING, No Mo’ Cuomo 12.02.21

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The Space Force Is Going to Shoot Fokin Hand Guns at Asteroids

In two thousand five, congress assigned nassau with monitoring asteroids and protecting the planet from dangerous space, space objects. Almost ten years later, in 20 14, in case you find yourself sleeping too well at night, a spacecraft has been launched to test humanity's ability to punch an asteroid away from earth. But they arent going, they're going to shoot fokin hand guns at the asteroids. Kind ofsthey're goll here. And the gull is to change its orbital speed by less than one%. That would be enough to alter its orbital period by several minutes.

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