Any potato gun or punkin’ chunkin’ fans can appreciate the awesomeness of launching one of these at the moon.
(Credit: NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office)
NASA has its eyes on lassoing and then studying a captive orbiting asteroid, but what happens to such a space rock when the space agency is all done with it?
“Once you’re finished with it and you have no further need of it, send it in to impact the moon,” Paul Chodas, scientist with the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said at the recent Space 2013 conference, according to Space.com. “That makes sense to me.”
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