NASA has released rare details of a near miss between a delicate space telescope and a disused Cold War spy satellite. Julie McEnery, project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, was alerted to the threat when she received an automatic warning generated by the space agency’s Robotic Conjunction Assessment Risk …

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Thursday 2nd May 2013 21:57 GMT ecofeco

Maxwell Smart

"Missed it by THAT much."

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Friday 3rd May 2013 05:00 GMT Winkypop

Where's the kaboom?

There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

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Friday 3rd May 2013 06:31 GMT Hubert Thrunge Jr.

Clean-up job

They could always send a shuttle up to do a clean-up job, bring back the scrap and weigh it in to cover the costs....

Oh wait....

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Friday 3rd May 2013 07:29 GMT PeterM42

A near MISS?

Surely it should be a near HIT?

In shooting, if you fail to HIT the target, it would be called a MISS.

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1. Friday 3rd May 2013 11:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: A near MISS?
  
  I see where you're coming from but you are wrong.
  
  A "near miss" is a miss that came near, not something which was nearly a miss.
  
  You could also say that a near miss was something that nearly hit.
  
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  1. Friday 3rd May 2013 11:37 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Too much near
    
    Now I'm starting to doubt whether "near" is a real word, in typical fashion of when you use an ordinary word a bit too much!
    
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Friday 3rd May 2013 13:31 GMT Arachnoid

Near miss?

Sounds more like an avoidable collision in that they calculated an incoming impact and moved out of the way,a bit like we do every day when driving.

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