Sending a hummingbird to a comet

[ via Click Feed ] I have a pair of hummingbird feeders on one of the balconies of my apartment. Throughout the day, they’ll dart in to feed on sugar water and leave in an eyeblink. That’s the strategy NASA proposes for sending a mission to sample a comet nucleus. A probe will dart into a well mapped zone, send a pair of leads down to measure and slice off bits, then back off to a safe orbit within a couple of seconds.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on April 20, 2000 at 12:00 am and filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.