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Russian astrologer Marina Bai is suing NASA over its Deep Impact mission designed to drive a spacecraft inside the Comet 9P/Tempel 1 on July 4. Bai, who's asking for $300 million, says that impact will disrupt the "natural balance of the Universe."
More strangely, a Moscow court actually took up the case.
A hearing was scheduled for May 6. So far now news on how it went.
The Deep Impact probe will crash a 39-inch spacecraft hauling some 700 pounds of copper into the 4-mile wide Tempel 1. The space craft will swoop down at a speed of 6.3 miles per second. The cosmic crash will take place 83 million miles away from Earth. NASA said that "the crater produced by the impact could range in size from the width of a large house up to the size of a football stadium and from 2 to 14 stories deep. Ice and dust debris will be ejected from the crater, revealing the material beneath."
The guts of comets are made of ice, gas and dust left over from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago and stored in a cosmic freezer beyond th orbit of Pluto. They hold important evidence about the birth and growth of Earth and other planets.