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🚀 Tonight, NASA crashing probe into asteroid 'just to see what happens'
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that rocket technology will help humanity in other ways breh .. one day we will be able to banish people like you to other worlds
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I'll just wait for the coli to do it's thing
Edit: yep just like clockwork
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What We Learned From NASA’s DART Mission (Published 2022)
The spacecraft plowed into a space rock with the goal of demonstrating how an asteroid threatening Earth could be deflected.
“For the first time, humanity has demonstrated the ability to autonomously target and alter the orbit of a celestial object,” Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said during a news conference after the crash. The laboratory managed the mission for NASA.
Hitting an asteroid with a high-speed projectile nudges its orbit. For an asteroid headed toward Earth, that could be enough to change a direct hit to a near miss.
that's very promising, we're moving in the right direction. i wonder if we can shatter one next. that would get us closer to knowing if we can avoid a direct hit.Yup
What We Learned From NASA’s DART Mission (Published 2022)
The spacecraft plowed into a space rock with the goal of demonstrating how an asteroid threatening Earth could be deflected.www.nytimes.com
“For the first time, humanity has demonstrated the ability to autonomously target and alter the orbit of a celestial object,” Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said during a news conference after the crash. The laboratory managed the mission for NASA.
Hitting an asteroid with a high-speed projectile nudges its orbit. For an asteroid headed toward Earth, that could be enough to change a direct hit to a near miss.
I wonder if this works when dimensions of the asteroid are greater.Yup
What We Learned From NASA’s DART Mission (Published 2022)
The spacecraft plowed into a space rock with the goal of demonstrating how an asteroid threatening Earth could be deflected.
“For the first time, humanity has demonstrated the ability to autonomously target and alter the orbit of a celestial object,” Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said during a news conference after the crash. The laboratory managed the mission for NASA.
Hitting an asteroid with a high-speed projectile nudges its orbit. For an asteroid headed toward Earth, that could be enough to change a direct hit to a near miss.
It probably will, but the dimensions of the object we're using probably has to be bigger also
We probably shouldn't shatter an asteroid. I imagine it would make a ton of space debris and then we'd have bigger problems
It would probably be way safer to just deflect it rather than risk creating debris.
Blowing it up would probably be a last resort if we noticed it too late for deflection to work.
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If it shatters most of the smaller pieces would burn up in the atmosphere before it can hit the ground
Crushing it into smaller pieces gives a greater chance of it burning in the atmosphere IIRC
I think it would depend on just how big it is
That's kind of dangerous..
If it breaks up into really small pieces that will burn up, great, but what if it breaks into like 3 or 4 pieces that are still big enough to cause damage?
It's hard to predict how exactly it would shatter so it's safer to just push it out the way.