The steel tubes, along with steel sheets, are being driven into the seabed using a large impact hammer.

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We probably would've destroyed the phone with a hammer or a direct impact with a wall by now, so our respect goes out to those of you who are still waiting and haven't destroyed anything of value.

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Shoemaker was studying asteroid impact craters in Australia and once said he would like to take a geologist's hammer to Eros.

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