Farting Simian Bipeds Firing A SPACE CANNON At An Asteroid:

This is not Sci-Fi.

This is FACT happening right now as we sit like bloated whales with hangovers after Christmas-New Year.

Hyabusa2 is our space explorer vehicle that has already successfully landed on  asteroid 162173 Ryugu after flying for more than three years - Right now .. it landed there 27 June 2018.

 Hayabusa2 will deploy what can be described as a free-flying gun with one "bullet", called Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI); - the system has a 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) copper projectile (that's 38,580.9 grains) to be fired into the asteroid surface by an explosive propellant charge.

- What it's going to do is take-off again - fire it's "bazooka" cannon to make a crater - then land again to scoop-up samples .. then lift-off again to return back to earth.

 Approximately 40 minutes after separation, when the spacecraft is at a safe distance, the copper disc penetrator will be fired at 2,000 meters per second into the asteroid surface by the detonation of 4.5 kg (9.9 lb) shaped charge of plasticized HMX nitro explosive.

SCI Small Carry-On Impactor.

The copper impactor will be shot to the surface from an altitude of about 500 meters and it is expected to excavate a crater of about 2 meters in diameter and expose fresh material. 

Hayabusa2 will then wait about two weeks for the floating dust & debris to clear from the site before descending into the newly-formed crater to retrieve a freshly exposed sample.

- Then it's going to once more lift-off and fly all the way back to our blue & green planet with these packets of space dirt.  PHWWW !

LINK:     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2

This is truly mind boggling stuff - BUT what really is WONDROUS is that the girls & boys who worked all this out in Japan and designed the equipment that could do it ... are the same burping and farting simians that put Donald Trump in charge of the hugest deadly military force in history .. and voted for England's BREXIT mess.

Marty K.

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