Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Mission

NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust - it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer.

Russian astrologer Marina Bai has sued the US space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into a comet late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe".

Bai is seeking damages totaling $300 million - the approximate equivalent of the mission's cost - for her "moral sufferings", according to her lawyer. She earlier told a paper that the experiment would "deform her horoscope".

Scientists say the crash did not significantly alter the comet's orbit around the sun and said the experiment does not pose any danger to Earth.

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