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Yup, that was my idea. Or to have NH itself fire off some very tiny instruments that might weight little enough to not go off like an atom bomb when hitting the
by chasing 11y ago
Yup, that was my idea. Or to have NH itself fire off some very tiny instruments that might weight little enough to not go off like an atom bomb when hitting the ground. A GoPro, for example. (I KNOW: NOT AN ACTUAL GOPRO. A small armored camera.) Or a thermometer.
The constraint there, though, might be designing equipment that is both very low mass and also capable of talking back to either Earth or the rest of NH as it zips away.
- danbruc 11y agoI fear that won't work. The speed relative to Pluto during closest approach was 13.78 meters every millisecond, I can't imagine that anything larger than a grain of sand will not behave like a liquid upon impact.
- idlewords 11y agoEven a grain of sand will go boom. Here's what a particle of similar size did to the space shuttle windshield, traveling at half the speed of New Horizons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_debris_impact_on_Space_Shuttle_window.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_debris_impact_...