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NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid at 15,000 mph. Will it make a dent? ... The explosive new mission launches on November 23.
https://www.livescience.com ^
| 8 Oct 2021
| By Brandon Specktor
Posted on 10/08/2021 8:39:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
An illustration showing the DART spacecraft blasting toward the asteroid Didymos. (Image credit: NASA) NASA has announced the launch date for an upcoming mission to punch an asteroid in the face with a high-speed spacecraft.
The mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), is scheduled to launch at 10:20 p.m. PST (7:20 p.m. EST) on Nov. 23, and it could help the world's space agencies figure out how to divert potentially lethal asteroids from impacting Earth, according to a NASA statement.
DART will test an asteroid defense plan called the kinetic impactor technique — essentially, shooting one or more large spacecraft into the path of an oncoming asteroid in order to change the space rock's motion. The target is a binary asteroid (two space rocks moving in tandem) called Didymos, which consists of one larger asteroid measuring about 2,600 feet (780 meters) in diameter and a smaller "moonlet" measuring about 525 feet (160 m) across.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: asteroid; asteroids; astronomy; catastrophism; science
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To: Red Badger
Can we redirect it to Mecca?
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:41:24 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:41:32 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(If you don’t think you are in a battle w/ the culture for your children then you are already losing.)
To: Reno89519
It would burn up in the atmosphere...............
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:41:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:43:45 AM PDT
by
Pollard
(PureBlood)
To: Red Badger
Won’t even make a dent, considering how light and fragile those NASA craft are as payloads.
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:44:40 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:45:06 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: Red Badger
I crashed into an asteroid once.
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:45:12 AM PDT
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Eddie01
To: Red Badger
Many folks believe that all it will do is break the object into smaller pieces heading in the exact same direction...we will see...
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:45:28 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: Red Badger
Probably steer it right into earth.
To: Red Badger
Just hire these guys:
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:45:51 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Eddie01
Anywhere near Uranus?.....................
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:50:10 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Plenty of chunks of Columbia made it to the ground.
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:50:54 AM PDT
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rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: rktman
It was slightly bigger........................
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:51:17 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Any good physicist can do the calculation. What are the masses? the velocities? Where’s the impact going to be?
My money is on it failing.
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10/08/2021 8:52:32 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Buy a Let's Go Brandon! sticker. Show your disdain for the maniac in the White House. I did.)
To: Eddie01
I crashed my Uncle’s Comet into our garage.
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10/08/2021 8:53:30 AM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/08/2021 8:53:49 AM PDT
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Eddie01
To: Red Badger
NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid at 15,000 mph.The asteroid that crashes into the NASA Space Center at 30,000 mph a month later will be just coincidence.
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10/08/2021 8:54:20 AM PDT
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Navy Patriot
(Celebrate Decivilization)
To: I want the USA back
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10/08/2021 8:55:55 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
If they wanted to crash into an asteroid at 15,000 mph, shouldn't they use something like this?
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10/08/2021 8:58:46 AM PDT
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Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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