Posted on 09/27/2022 1:13:52 PM PDT by MtnClimber
“Ideally, if impacted early enough, even the kick from a small spacecraft can deflect a large asteroid enough to miss the Earth.”
Even if we can’t impact it early enough, with a later impact we may still be able to deflect a large asteroid enough to make it strike China.
GMTA
Or Bidet’s scoop of rocky road.
I think I heard tonight that it will be many weeks before we know - maybe a couple of months.
We should have been experimenting with this a long time ago.
Did DART move the asteroid? Results explored as NASA defense test is carried out
I couldn’t read through all of it; but impact seems to have been successful.
Whether it changed the path of the object is the important thing.
Yeah and apparently they aren’t going to say anything for weeks.
I just want to know that it didn’t fragment into a hundred pieces like blowing up a beached whale.
I’m not sure they CAN say anything for weeks.
And if it ‘fragmented’, I think it was far enough away that it won’t bother any sentient being...that we know of :-)
The asteroid direction has now been changed and is heading for Earth!
All of it...................😉
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