TO ME, TO UFO
FACE OF CHUCKLE BROTHER FOUND ON NASA SPACE ROCK
NASA space bosses were over the Moon last week after successfully crashing a probe into an asteroid in a real- life test to save Earth from any future Armageddon.
The Yank organisation’s DART vehicle flew 11 million kilometres before hurtling into the 160 metre- wide Dimorphos at 13,600mph way out in outer space.
Mission control had a perfect video stream from the probe right up until it was smashed to smithereens on impact.
Celestial
Look at the size of this asteroid!
But those last few moments also revealed something COMPLETELY unexpected – an image of the face of late comedy legend Barry Chuckle on the surface of the celestial target.
Barry – who with younger brother Paul, 74, spent years performing as slapstick TV star entertainers the Chuckle Brothers – sadly passed away in August 2018, aged 73.
Yet now, as if from the heavens, he seems to have made one last Chuckle Vision appearance.
Or as one fan hilariously put it on Twitter, playing with the comedy duo’s famous catchphrase: “From me to UFO!”
An insider at the European Space Agency, who had access to the video feed, said: “The Yanks didn’t have a clue who Barry was, but we recognised him immediately. It was quite a sight, and makes you wonder what else is going on above our heads that no- one is telling us.”
The asteroid collision was designed to test whether space rocks that might threaten Earth could be nudged safely out of the way.
The idea was first floated in the Bruce Willis 1998 film Armageddon.
Dimorphos is itself a satellite to a much larger asteroid, Didymous.
It will be some weeks before scientists on the NASA- led mission know if the experiment has worked.