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Rhiannon12866

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Tue Sep 27, 2022, 02:52 AM Sep 2022

Mind-Bending NASA Feat Serves As Inspiration For Attempting Important Work - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC



Rachel Maddow reports on an amazing NASA mission in which a very small space craft was used to move a an asteroid's relatively small moon almost 7 million miles away from Earth, and notes the value in its model of attempting and achieving something difficult and important. - Aired on 09/26/2022.


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Mind-Bending NASA Feat Serves As Inspiration For Attempting Important Work - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 OP
They will be making observations to determine if the orbit has been altered at all. Frasier Balzov Sep 2022 #1
And this is certainly groundbreaking! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 #2
Groundbreaking. Pun intended? Frasier Balzov Sep 2022 #3
LOL! Well, I did watch what happened, both on the posted video(s) and on TV Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 #4

Frasier Balzov

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1. They will be making observations to determine if the orbit has been altered at all.
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 02:58 AM
Sep 2022

What a perfect laboratory for this experiment!

Frasier Balzov

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3. Groundbreaking. Pun intended?
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:07 AM
Sep 2022

Because that Dart spacecraft must have kicked up some gravel into an orbit of its own!

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