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NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique
ClickOrlando.com ^ | July 1, 2017 | Dakin Adone

Posted on 07/01/2017 5:39:58 PM PDT by plain talk

On Friday, the space agency announced plans to redirect the course of a small asteroid approaching Earth, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), according to a NASA press release.

The release notes that asteroids hit Earth nearly every day, but most are small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. But the DART project -- a joint effort between NASA and the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland -- is for the asteroids that are too big to break up -- those that could have severe consequences for the Earth if they hit.

"DART would be NASA's first mission to demonstrate what's known as the kinetic impactor technique -- striking the asteroid to shift its orbit -- to defend against a potential future asteroid impact," said Lindley Johnson, NASA's planetary defense officer in Washington, in the press release.

DART launch set for October 2022

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Well this is something NASA should be working on ... instead of muslim outreach.
1 posted on 07/01/2017 5:39:59 PM PDT by plain talk
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A start of a return to sanity.

Of course we could multi-task and tell muslims that the the approaching asteroid has a cartoon of mohamhead deep inside.


2 posted on 07/01/2017 5:44:57 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (In Safe Space, no one can hear you weep....No one cares either.)
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The dart program sounds like a good program we should be using for muslim outreach.


3 posted on 07/01/2017 5:45:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Wonder if a drone can be programmed to knock it off its trajectory?


4 posted on 07/01/2017 5:45:07 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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Nonsense. If God wanted to destroy the planet, it would have happened long ago. And when He does, humanity cannot do a damn thing about it, in any matter He chooses. Worthless money spent on a nonexistent problem.
5 posted on 07/01/2017 5:47:44 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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What could go wrong?

Nudge it the wrong way so that it is aimed at earth? Ooops, my bad....

6 posted on 07/01/2017 5:49:09 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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——Wonder if a drone can be programmed to knock it off its trajectory?——

A drone ?

Doesn’t a drone need an atmosphere to fly in ?

Even a small asteroid needs to impacted in space to move it off a earth trajectory.


7 posted on 07/01/2017 5:51:31 PM PDT by Popman
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8 posted on 07/01/2017 5:59:29 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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9 posted on 07/01/2017 6:04:10 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: Popman

Interesting. In the last few months we seem to be hearing about more asteroids. Are we entering into a more dangerous spaced?


10 posted on 07/01/2017 6:06:00 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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Women and Minorities hardest hit!


11 posted on 07/01/2017 6:06:00 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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The NASA Muslim outreach program needs to be cancelled pronto.


12 posted on 07/01/2017 6:09:41 PM PDT by Crucial
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Do the testing to figure out how to change their orbits on asteroids who’s orbits are now entirely inside ours. Minimize the risk. Once you’ve figured out how to move them then do the additional work to determine how to approach asteroids in potentially dangerous orbits to apply the lessons of the former.


13 posted on 07/01/2017 6:14:53 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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14 posted on 07/01/2017 6:18:28 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: plain talk

I hope they get all of their unit conversions correct and don’t end up sending the asteroid into the Kabaa...


15 posted on 07/01/2017 6:21:29 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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There was once a book called Lucifer’s Hammer ...


16 posted on 07/01/2017 6:23:42 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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17 posted on 07/01/2017 6:26:40 PM PDT by gaijin
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Hmm....it all seems...so familiar, somehow...


18 posted on 07/01/2017 6:27:46 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: plain talk

If you see a bright light in the sky and it vears off to the left or right, you will be fine. However, if it just keeps getting bigger..........you have a problem.


19 posted on 07/01/2017 6:36:49 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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If you see a bright light in the sky and it vears off to the left or right, you will be fine. However, if it just keeps getting bigger..........you have a problem.


20 posted on 07/01/2017 6:36:50 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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