up. i saw that. look, nasa is testing a program called dartt, double asteroid dias detroit test. what can you tell us about that? do we have a handle on it, were it to get so close, we re going to do something about it? hopefully. it s going to hit an asteroid about the same size. it is a little moon. what they re going to do is hit it really hard and look very carefully at the moon. and if they ve changed the course, even a little bit, you ll see the orbit change. if that happens, then you know that you can smack one of these things years before it becomes a problem. otherwise, you re getting into sci-fi and nuclear weapons and stuff like that. i m all for smacking these things. if they can figure out the technical way to smack them, that s good. so, keith, is this the kind of thing you can go out in your backyard with your handy dandy telescope and see this with your naked eye? probably not with your naked eye. if you have a pretty small