"We picked up something during a routine unmanned scientific probe a week ago."
"That may very well be, Kat, but nowadays it's a euphemism for nothing and an accurate label for a routine unmanned scientific probe."
It consists of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
He also spent a day writing a paper on how to actually send a scientific probe to the earth's core.
Jaq was barely two years old when daemon-possessed psykers slaughtered both his parents during a scientific probe into the wilderness.
The latter novel features a land and sea expedition across the superjovian planet Mesklin to recover a stranded scientific probe.
An unmanned scientific probe sent to Mars discovers an alien artifact.
Right now, they had scientific probes exploring their own solar system and had managed to launch and recover several dozen orbital missions.
"We still build the finest scientific probes in the world."
The oblong chunk wasn't going to hit the earth, but if it was going to orbit, it would be in perfect position for scientific probes.