Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MOSCOW, July 5 (UPI) -- A Russian astrologer has sued NASA, claiming the U.S. space agency risked her future and the world's by probing a comet. Marina Bay is seeking $300 million for "moral trauma," the BBC reports. Advertisement The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was over the moon about Deep Impact, its successful probing of Comet Tempel 1. But in Moscow, the reaction appears to be different. "Nobody has yet proven that this experiment was safe," Bay's lawyer, Alexander Molokhov, told the BBC. "This impact could have altered the orbit of the comet, so now there is a chance that the Tempel may well destroy the Earth some day!" Bay believes that, even if Tempel stays away, altering the comet's orbit has changed her life. NASA engineer Shadan Ardalan told the BBC the effect of the probe on the comet was equivalent to "a mosquito hitting the front of an airliner in flight." A hearing began Monday in Moscow. A judge is expected to decide in a few weeks if the suit can go forward.
