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Watch the moment a NASA spacecraft collides into an asteroid 7 million miles away
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully crashed into asteroid Dimorphos around 7:14 p.m. ET on Monday, September 26, 2022 to see if kinetic force can change its orbit. Why? If this test is successful, the same technique could be used to deflect an Earth-threatening asteroid in the future, should one ever be discovered.
Bigdog (09-26-2022), domer76 (09-26-2022), Grokmaster (09-26-2022), Guno צְבִי (09-26-2022)
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Bigdog (09-26-2022), Guno צְבִי (09-26-2022)
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Imagine it deflecting it only to readjust it's orbit in direct path to the Earth.
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No, thanks, that’s a scary thought.Originally Posted by AProudLefty
AProudLefty (09-26-2022)
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It is. Rocks zoom by, some enter the atmosphere, all the time.
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Good shot !!
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Bigdog (09-27-2022)
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A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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It hit the asteroid at 15,000 mph!
Bigdog (09-27-2022)
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how fast was the asteroid traveling and what is it's mass?
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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The mass of Dimorphos is around 5 billion kilograms, not sure about its velocity as it's orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos.
Bigdog (09-27-2022)
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well, $330 million dollars just to see if we could hit a moving target...........................mighty expensive for such a letdown
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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You wouldn't say that if it were on a path to hit the Earth.
Bigdog (09-27-2022)
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sure I would.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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Yep, despite Obama trying to reduce Nasa to just a training camp for ME terrorists, ... Nasa has still got it!
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cancel2 2022 (09-27-2022)
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The DART mission successfully altered the orbit of Dimorphos.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...tion-in-space/
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology...
...Prior to DART’s impact, it took Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its larger parent asteroid, Didymos. Since DART’s intentional collision with Dimorphos on Sept. 26, astronomers have been using telescopes on Earth to measure how much that time has changed. Now, the investigation team has confirmed the spacecraft’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes, shortening the 11 hour and 55-minute orbit to 11 hours and 23 minutes. This measurement has a margin of uncertainty of approximately plus or minus 2 minutes.
Before its encounter, NASA had defined a minimum successful orbit period change of Dimorphos as change of 73 seconds or more. This early data show DART surpassed this minimum benchmark by more than 25 times.
“This result is one important step toward understanding the full effect of DART’s impact with its target asteroid” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “As new data come in each day, astronomers will be able to better assess whether, and how, a mission like DART could be used in the future to help protect Earth from a collision with an asteroid if we ever discover one headed our way.”
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