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  • Also, while Kaguya did provide some fantastic HD video, keep in mind LCROSS was developed in less than a third the time compared to Kaguya, and designed for very different purposes: Kaguya as a surveyor and LCROSS as an Impactor.

    Barnstorming Over The Moon - Live - NASA Watch 2009

  • Could it have anything to do with the Chicxulub Impactor off the Yucatan?

    BP, LLC | RedState 2010

  • An interesting, related sidenote - I got a copy of an article entitled An Asteroid Breakup 160 MYR ago As the Probable Source of the K/T Impactor, which came out in the August issue of Nature.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Andrew 2008

  • An interesting, related sidenote - I got a copy of an article entitled An Asteroid Breakup 160 MYR ago As the Probable Source of the K/T Impactor, which came out in the August issue of Nature.

    Near-Hit? Andrew 2008

  • The Bosch Impactor Fastening Driver PS40-2 is deceptively powerful for its size.

    This tool makes a major impact 2007

  • Twin Twist was being tortured by Stalker, with Impactor and Springer bound and looking on in horror.

    Transformers News - All News Tim Formas 2010

  • Impactor strikes proto-Earth at a shallow angle resulting in the formation of the moon.

    Mania News Feed Jarrod Sarafin 2010

  • Twin Twist was being tortured by Stalker, with Impactor and Springer bound and looking on in horror.

    Transformers News - All News Tim Formas 2010

  • I think that a more effective proposition would be a Kinetic Impactor - a means of deflecting an asteroid by attempting to directly alter its momentum by sending a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • I think that a more effective proposition would be a Kinetic Impactor - a means of deflecting an asteroid by attempting to directly alter its momentum by sending a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid.

    California Literary Review 2009

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