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To: BenLurkin

If it’s got solar electric propulsion, why not soft land it
and use that solar electric propulsion to gently ease the
asteroid into a useful orbit?


6 posted on 04/14/2019 6:11:34 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: EasySt

Because they want to test the impactor technique.


11 posted on 04/14/2019 6:21:59 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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