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Even 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. htt

Even 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_...

socceroos 11y ago
wow.
blazespin 11y ago
How does new horizons survive? Space must be pretty empty.
- idlewords 11y ago
  That's why they call it space! More seriously, there's a dust counter on the probe whose entire job is to be hit with stuff. But it's much tinier than a sand grain.