Webb telescope aimed at asteroid targeted by Nasa spacecraft for collision
2 years, 6 months ago

Webb telescope aimed at asteroid targeted by Nasa spacecraft for collision

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa’s space telescopes, Webb and its predecessor Hubble, as well as the Lucy space probe, are all set to monitor Nasa’s Dart mission slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday. Now, images of the Dart mission that will be captured by JWST, and the Hubble space telescope, could shed more light on the physics of the spacecraft’s impact with the asteroid, and also on the asteroid’s debris post-collision. In the proof-of-concept test, the American space agency’s Dart spacecraft will strike an asteroid called Dimorphos some 68 million miles from Earth, and Nasa will carefully measure the results. “Dart is demonstrating what we call the kinetic impact technique for changing the speed of the asteroid in space and therefore changing its orbit,” Nasa planetary defence officer Lindley Johnson said.

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Scientists to use NASA's James Webb telescope to track asteroid as odds of hitting Earth rise
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Scientists to use NASA's James Webb telescope to track asteroid as odds of hitting Earth rise

Hindustan Times  

Scientists are using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study an asteroid, dubbed as ‘city-killer’, that has a small chance of striking Earth less than eight years from now. According to scientists, the asteroid currently carries a 2 per cent risk of making contact with Earth when it eventually reaches near it on December 22, 2032. Even if the 2024 …

Nasa to turn James Webb Telescope towards asteroid that could collide with Earth
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Nasa to turn James Webb Telescope towards asteroid that could collide with Earth

India Today  

Days after Nasa increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth from over one per cent to over two per cent, astronomers have decided to turn the mighty James Webb Space Telescope towards it. The world's most powerful telescope, located over 1.5 million kilometres from Earth in space, will improve the understanding of the size and orbit of …

Nasa using world’s most powerful telescope to examine asteroid that could smash into Earth
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Nasa using world’s most powerful telescope to examine asteroid that could smash into Earth

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists will point the world’s most powerful telescope at the asteroid 2024 YR4, …

NASA's James Webb Telescope spots 138 new asteroids, including Earth-threatening ones
3 months, 1 week ago

NASA's James Webb Telescope spots 138 new asteroids, including Earth-threatening ones

India TV News  

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery of a large number of new asteroids located in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. The researchers used old images from the James Webb Space Telescope to identify these asteroids. Their efforts led to the discovery of 138 new asteroids, six of which seem to have been affected by the gravity of nearby …

Giant, stadium-sized asteroid to fly past Earth tomorrow | All you need to know
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Giant, stadium-sized asteroid to fly past Earth tomorrow | All you need to know

Hindustan Times  

NASA is monitoring a “massive” asteroid which is set to pass by Earth on Tuesday. The asteroid's distance from Earth will be 5.5 million kilometers, more than 14 times the distance between the Earth and Moon. While 5.5 million kilometers is still significantly close, it is a “safe” distance in the context of space. How NASA tracks asteroids: For this, …

Chunks of asteroid from NASA's deflection test could smash into Earth in the next 10 years
7 months ago

Chunks of asteroid from NASA's deflection test could smash into Earth in the next 10 years

Daily Mail  

Debris from an asteroid deflected by NASA could reach our planet within the next decade, a study says. The research team ran simulations that tracked 3 million debris particles from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, which collided a spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The DART mission was a success, but simulations showed that resulting debris could one …

Earth is poorly prepared for asteroid strike - even if we had an advance warning of 14 years, official report finds
9 months ago

Earth is poorly prepared for asteroid strike - even if we had an advance warning of 14 years, official report finds

Daily Mail  

Being wiped out by a massive space rock that hits Earth at thousands of miles an hour is one of the ways humanity could go extinct. On average, Earth is hit by a football pitch-sized rock every 5,000 years, and a civilisation-ending asteroid every one million years, according to NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Billy Bob Thornton as Dan Truman, a …

'Cataclysmic' collision of giant asteroids is discovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope around a nearby star - and it only happened 20 years ago, scientists say
9 months, 2 weeks ago

'Cataclysmic' collision of giant asteroids is discovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope around a nearby star - and it only happened 20 years ago, scientists say

Daily Mail  

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was built to 'see back in time', up to a whopping 13.5 billion years ago – but its latest discovery is surprisingly recent. Just 20 years ago, a collision occurred between two asteroids orbiting Beta Pictoris, a star 63 light-years from Earth, the $10 billion observatory reveals. Scientists theorize that a massive amount of dust …

NASA says 280-foot asteroid set to approach Earth! Know how close it will get
11 months, 1 week ago

NASA says 280-foot asteroid set to approach Earth! Know how close it will get

Hindustan Times  

While small asteroids keep zipping past Earth at fairly regular intervals some of the bigger ones are not that frequent. And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 feet is all set to get very close to Earth tomorrow, April 21. That the danger is real is clear from the fact that …

Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos
1 year ago

Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos

The Hindu  

When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object's trajectory, if needed, to protect Earth. Thus, its global strength is quite low, allowing deformation much more easily than for a solid monolithic body," said Steve Chesley, a senior research scientist at …

NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission 'completely reshaped' its target Dimorphos, scientists say
1 year ago

NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission 'completely reshaped' its target Dimorphos, scientists say

ABC  

NASA's successful mission to smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid moon in 2022 is likely to have "completely reshaped" its target, according to new research. Earth's first planetary defence system test NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test intentionally directed a spacecraft into the path of Dimorphos, a tiny moonlet of near-Earth asteroid Didymos, in September 2022. Full impact of NASA's …

NASA celebrates James Webb Space Telescope's first anniversary with mesmerizing image of star's birth in stunning detail
1 year, 8 months ago

NASA celebrates James Webb Space Telescope's first anniversary with mesmerizing image of star's birth in stunning detail

Hindustan Times  

The James Webb Space Telescope has marked its first anniversary with a breathtaking image showcasing the birth of a star in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. In this photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane, Close encounter with stellar creation The newly released image features the closest star-forming region to …

Astronomers observe aftermath of Nasa mission to crash spacecraft into asteroid
2 years ago

Astronomers observe aftermath of Nasa mission to crash spacecraft into asteroid

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Brian Murphy, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and co-author of one of the two …

Smallest main belt asteroid detected by James Webb telescope: NASA
2 years, 1 month ago

Smallest main belt asteroid detected by James Webb telescope: NASA

Hindustan Times  

European astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected a previously unknown asteroid about the size of Rome's Colosseum in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid measuring between 300 and 650 feet in length is the smallest object observed to date using the telescope, the US space agency NASA said Monday. Read here: Turkey-Syria earthquake …

NASA says DART mission succeeded in changing the path of asteroid in space
2 years, 5 months ago

NASA says DART mission succeeded in changing the path of asteroid in space

Live Mint  

US space agency NASA confirmed on Wednesday that its recent attempt to alter the path of an asteroid happened successfully. NASA said that the orbit of 160m-wide space rock known as Dimorphos was changed when the DART probe struck its head in September this year. On Twitter, NASA confirmed that analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by …

NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth
2 years, 5 months ago

NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth

The Hindu  

NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, said NASA …

How NASA DART mission could one day save the world
2 years, 5 months ago

How NASA DART mission could one day save the world

Daily Mail  

The aim of the exercise was to see if NASA could nudge an asteroid heading to Earth off its orbit, in order to save our planet from a catastrophic impact NASA announced Tuesday that its DART mission, which plowed a spacecraft into a small asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth, was a 'smashing success' after data shows the space rock's …

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge
2 years, 5 months ago

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

LA Times  

The asteroid Dimorphos is seen as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft flies toward it on Sept. 26, 2022. A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. “This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready …

NASA says DART spacecraft successfully alters asteroid’s path
2 years, 5 months ago

NASA says DART spacecraft successfully alters asteroid’s path

Al Jazeera  

Taking a page out of science fiction and Hollywood scripts, US space agency aims to prevent collision with Earth. NASA says it has succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity’s ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor deliberately smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos on …

Webb, Hubble telescope images reveal Nasa Dart spacecraft slamming into asteroid was ‘bigger than expected’
2 years, 5 months ago

Webb, Hubble telescope images reveal Nasa Dart spacecraft slamming into asteroid was ‘bigger than expected’

The Independent  

Nasa has released images taken by the Webb and Hubble space telescopes that worked together simultaneously for the first time, capturing the space agency’s Dart spacecraft slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos on Monday. Working in sync, the Webb telescope and its older counterpart, have shed more light on the cosmic event and battered asteroid, suggesting the collision was “bigger than …

Asteroid smacked by NASA spacecraft now has a debris trail more than 6,000 miles long
2 years, 5 months ago

Asteroid smacked by NASA spacecraft now has a debris trail more than 6,000 miles long

LA Times  

A plume of dust and debris trails the asteroid Dimorphos, which was hit by a NASA spacecraft. The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact. The image shows an expanding, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles long, consisting of dust and other material spewed from the …

NASA’s DART smash created asteroid debris tail more than 10,000 kilometres long
2 years, 5 months ago

NASA’s DART smash created asteroid debris tail more than 10,000 kilometres long

ABC  

Last month NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it would change course. Key points: New images show the tail created by NASA's DART asteroid smash It could be weeks until scientists confirm if the asteroid's orbit has been changed The mission's objective was to determine if scientists could save Earth from a potential asteroid collision Now …

Smacked asteroid's debris trail more than 6,000 miles long
2 years, 5 months ago

Smacked asteroid's debris trail more than 6,000 miles long

The Hindu  

The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact. Their remarkable observation two days after last month's planetary defense test was recently released a National Science Foundation lab in Arizona. The image shows an expanding, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles long, consisting of dust and other …

Huge 6000-mile long debris trail now follows asteroid Dimorphos slammed by Nasa Dart spacecraft
2 years, 5 months ago

Huge 6000-mile long debris trail now follows asteroid Dimorphos slammed by Nasa Dart spacecraft

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New observations of an asteroid slammed by Nasa’s Dart spacecraft last week have …

Space telescopes capture NASA’s asteroid slam with striking clarity
2 years, 5 months ago

Space telescopes capture NASA’s asteroid slam with striking clarity

LA Times  

A close-up view of Dimorphos, left, as seen by the NASA spacecraft DART before it crashed into the asteroid. A few hours later, SpaceX and NASA announced that they’re studying the feasibility of sending a private mission to Hubble — potentially led by a billionaire space tourist — to raise the aging telescope’s orbit and extend its life. Telescopes on …

Space telescopes capture asteroid slam with striking clarity
2 years, 5 months ago

Space telescopes capture asteroid slam with striking clarity

The Independent  

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Watch: Effects Of DART's Collision With Asteroid, Captured By Webb And Hubble Space Telescopes
2 years, 5 months ago

Watch: Effects Of DART's Collision With Asteroid, Captured By Webb And Hubble Space Telescopes

ABP News  

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have once again enchanted the world with their mesmerising images. pic.twitter.com/XGpTsMg0Ab — NASA Webb Telescope September 29, 2022 The asteroid moved at a speed over three times faster than the original speed light Webb was designed to track, because of which observing DART's impact was a unique challenge for Webb. In …

First images of asteroid strike from Webb, Hubble telescopes
2 years, 5 months ago

First images of asteroid strike from Webb, Hubble telescopes

The Hindu  

The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their initial images of a spacecraft deliberately crashing into an asteroid, marking the first time the two most powerful space telescopes have observed the same celestial object. While those images showed matter spraying out over thousands of kilometres, the James Webb and Hubble images "zoom in much closer", said Alan Fitzsimmons, …

Images of Nasa’s Dart spacecraft’s asteroid impact from around - and off - the world
2 years, 6 months ago

Images of Nasa’s Dart spacecraft’s asteroid impact from around - and off - the world

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. NASA hits an asteroid with a spacecraft “The sequence of images they provided in real time was …

Nasa’s asteroid crashing mission returns first image of target space rock
2 years, 6 months ago

Nasa’s asteroid crashing mission returns first image of target space rock

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or Dart, has returned its first image of …

Nasa Dart mission: Spacecraft slams into asteroid in first-ever planetary defence effort
2 years, 6 months ago

Nasa Dart mission: Spacecraft slams into asteroid in first-ever planetary defence effort

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or Dart, slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos at 14,400 miles per …

Nasa DART mission live: Nasa successfully smashes spacecraft into asteroid in first major test
2 years, 6 months ago

Nasa DART mission live: Nasa successfully smashes spacecraft into asteroid in first major test

The Independent  

✕ Close Asteroid strike: NASA craft successfully slams into distant space rock Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa‘s …

NASA DART is first step to avert asteroid strike on Earth: Indian scientists
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA DART is first step to avert asteroid strike on Earth: Indian scientists

Live Mint  

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Tuesday successfully crashed into an asteroid. "NASA's DART mission is a step towards preparing the world for a potential future asteroid strike like the one which killed dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, the chances of which are very slim in our lifetime," Indian scientists said. …

NASA crashes DART spacecraft to experiment planetary defence tech for future asteroid impacts
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA crashes DART spacecraft to experiment planetary defence tech for future asteroid impacts

Op India  

On September 26, a spacecraft launched by NASA crashed into an asteroid. Around ten months ago, the United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a $344 million spacecraft under a mission codenamed Double Asteroid Redirection Test with an aim to intentionally crash it on an asteroid. Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully …

Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defence test
2 years, 6 months ago

Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defence test

The Hindu  

A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed on Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. Launched last November, the vending machine-size Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — navigated to its target using new technology developed by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, the spacecraft builder and mission manager. …

When we may know if Nasa’s Dart mission successfully deflected asteroid
2 years, 6 months ago

When we may know if Nasa’s Dart mission successfully deflected asteroid

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Over the coming days, weeks, and months, scientists will begin releasing images and …

NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defence test
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defence test

The Hindu  

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on September 26 in a test of the world's first planetary defence system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth. Humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the mission operations center …

NASA DART mission: Spacecraft slams into asteroid 9.6 million km away
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA DART mission: Spacecraft slams into asteroid 9.6 million km away

Live Mint  

In an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day when an asteroid threatens Earth, a NASA spacecraft crashed into an asteroid at breakneck speed early on September 27. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a vending machine-sized spacecraft that was launched in November, used novel navigational techniques created by the mission manager and spacecraft builder, Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. DART …

NASA DART Spacecraft Crashes Into Asteroid In World First Planetary Defence Test History Is Made
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA DART Spacecraft Crashes Into Asteroid In World First Planetary Defence Test History Is Made

ABP News  

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft has made history by crashing into an asteroid, marking the successful completion of the world's first planetary defence test. pic.twitter.com/2qbVMnqQrD — NASA September 26, 2022 All About DART's Target Before DART’s impact with Dimorphos, the asteroid orbited Didymos, the other asteroid in the binary system. Though Dimorphos posed no threat to Earth, DART was …

NASA successfully launches DART spacecraft into asteroid to see if it can change its course
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA successfully launches DART spacecraft into asteroid to see if it can change its course

ABC  

NASA has successfully smashed a spaceship into an asteroid in an attempt to move an asteroid in space. As the next few months pass we'll learn more about the impact this mission actually had on the asteroid, but DART successfully hit its target, which is humanity's first attempt at moving another celestial body. "Just a small change in its speed …

NASA’s DART Spacecraft Smashes Into an Asteroid—on Purpose
55 years, 2 months ago

NASA’s DART Spacecraft Smashes Into an Asteroid—on Purpose

Wired  

NASA is usually pretty careful with its space probes. That confirmed the spacecraft’s collision, and the room rang out with the shouts of researchers: “Oh wow!” “Oh my goodness!” “We got it!” NASA scientists believe that the asteroid got dented but didn’t entirely break up, and they expect that the impact may have slightly shortened its orbit around Didymos. Shortly …

Space experts deliver their verdict on NASA's DART mission to knock an asteroid off course
2 years, 6 months ago

Space experts deliver their verdict on NASA's DART mission to knock an asteroid off course

Daily Mail  

Tonight, NASA may just pull off one of its most ambitious feats in its 64-year history. DART's target is the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos, around 6.8 million miles away from our planet. Brace for impact: NASA's first ever 'planetary defence' spacecraft - sent to deflect an asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth – is …

NASA's DART Spacecraft To Crash Into Asteroid In A Few Hours From Now. When And How To Watch Online All You Need To Know Explained
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA's DART Spacecraft To Crash Into Asteroid In A Few Hours From Now. When And How To Watch Online All You Need To Know Explained

ABP News  

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft is set to crash into an asteroid in a few hours from now, and the whole world can watch the exciting spectacle. pic.twitter.com/XCBtdsgVV0 — Bill Nelson September 26, 2022 When And How To Watch DART's Collision With An Asteroid The world can watch the world's first planetary defence test online. Though the asteroid will …

In a few hours, NASA will clash with asteroid as big as football stadium
2 years, 6 months ago

In a few hours, NASA will clash with asteroid as big as football stadium

Live Mint  

In order to demonstrate NASA's capability to defend Earth from deadly asteroids in the future, a robotic NASA spacecraft is scheduled to ram an asteroid in outer space on September 26 at a speed of 25,500 kilometres per hour. The DART spacecraft will initially detect Dimorphos, an asteroid the size of a football stadium, as a single pixel in its …

Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid
2 years, 6 months ago

Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid

LA Times  

Scientists react as a spacecraft crashes into an asteroid named Dimorphos. Though the impact was immediately obvious — DART’s radio signal abruptly ceased — it will take days or even weeks to determine how much the asteroid’s path was changed. Earlier Monday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson reminded people via Twitter that, “No, this is not a movie plot.” He added …

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?

The Hindu  

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. Dart, the Impactor The Johns Hopkins lab took a minimalist approach in developing Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — given that it’s essentially a battering ram and faces sure destruction. Another spacecraft, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, is loaded into …

Explained: NASA's 'save the world' experiment which will see a spacecraft crash into an asteroid
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained: NASA's 'save the world' experiment which will see a spacecraft crash into an asteroid

Firstpost  

NASA plans to crash a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. The aim is just to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock — demonstrating that if a killer asteroid ever heads our way, we’d stand a fighting chance of diverting it Cape Canaveral: In the first-of-its-kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to …

Why Is A NASA Spacecraft Crashing Into An Asteroid?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why Is A NASA Spacecraft Crashing Into An Asteroid?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. “This is stuff of science-fiction books and really corny episodes of “StarTrek” from when I was a kid, and now it’s real,” NASA program scientist Tom Statler said Thursday. “This really is about asteroid …

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?

Associated Press  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. “This is stuff of science-fiction books and really corny episodes of “StarTrek” from when I was a kid, and now it’s real,” NASA program scientist Tom Statler said Thursday. “This really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption,” …

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