Japan just shot a copper cannonball at an asteroid

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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has already fired a bullet at the asteroid Ryugu from close range to suck up a sample of the space rock. Now the mission has gone a step further by attempting to blast a new crater onto the surface of the object it's been orbiting for months.

The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) announced just before 8 p.m. PT Thursday that it fired its "small carry-on impactor" (SCI) at Ryugu. The SCI is a 2 kilogram (4.4 pound) lump of copper attached to Hayabusa2 that was shot toward Ryugu at a speed of 2 kilometers per second (4,474 miles per hour).

Japan just shot a copper cannonball at an asteroid :popcorn:
 
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Good thing they didn't miss. Can you imagine if they did and the cannon ball shot thru space until it hit the home planet of an advanced species of alien who traced it back to us and came and invaded Earth as pay back? Playing a serious game of roulette Japan...glad you went ahead and risked the lives of everyone on Earth so you could play sandbox games and make a crator in an astroid. Hope it was worth it, lol.:rolleyes:o_O
 
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ArmedCorgi said:
Good thing they didn't miss. Can you imagine if they did and the cannon ball shot thru space until it hit the home planet of an advanced species of alien who traced it back to us and came and invaded Earth as pay back? Playing a serious game of roulette Japan...glad you went ahead and risked the lives of everyone on Earth so you could play sandbox games and make a crator in an astroid. Hope it was worth it, lol.:rolleyes:o_O
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Space needs a gun free zone sign :ROFL:
 
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