Why NASA Is Shooting Asteroids With The World's Fastest Gun

NASA Ames hosts the vertical gun range, a unique hypervelocity test facility which consists of a gun capable of throwing projectiles at orbital velocities. This is used to test impact conditions at speeds far beyond those available to conventional guns, enabling experiments in planetary science and spaceflight engineering which would be otherwise impossible on earth.

https://www.nasa.gov/thermophysics-facilities-branch-ballistic-ranges/

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