Phobos
Feb9-04, 05:34 PM
http://www.physicspost.com/articles.php?articleId=189&page=1
On July 4, 2005, my name will be obliterated. NASA is burning my name onto a CD and blasting it off the face of the Earth set on a collision course with a nearby comet. Actually, their precious spacecraft will be spared from this fate as it sits safely away from the fireworks show. The CD will instead be strapped to what is, for all practical purposes, a 370-kg (816 lb) smart bomb to be dropped from the spacecraft and strike the comet with the equivalent of 4.8 tons of TNT [1]. There will be no sign of the CD, or my name, in the resulting stadium-sized crater.
Enjoy!
On July 4, 2005, my name will be obliterated. NASA is burning my name onto a CD and blasting it off the face of the Earth set on a collision course with a nearby comet. Actually, their precious spacecraft will be spared from this fate as it sits safely away from the fireworks show. The CD will instead be strapped to what is, for all practical purposes, a 370-kg (816 lb) smart bomb to be dropped from the spacecraft and strike the comet with the equivalent of 4.8 tons of TNT [1]. There will be no sign of the CD, or my name, in the resulting stadium-sized crater.
Enjoy!