NASA Telescope Captures Epic Collision Between DART Probe and Asteroid Dimorphos

CNet ^ | Sept. 27, 2022 5:00 a.m. PT | Jackson Ryan

[BenLurkin]

It was dreadful. And worrisome.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[digger48]

Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an asteroid shattering KABOOM!

[meatloaf]

https://scitechupdates.com/comet-impacts-formed-continents-when-solar-system-entered-arms-of-milky-way/?fbclid=IwAR0lWww-bj7LkGNuf9WiahDDCbiAUWB4_c1W1giApq24c7LH8XgVphJ-JbE

[servo1969]

Spacecraft’s point of view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD7WseCTC9s

Satellite point of view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK69hej1A6w

[TChad]

Thanks. I guess that’s as good as the videos get, for now.

[NWFree]

I remember that

http://atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/asteroids/

[NWFree]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1700890/Asteroids_Recharged/

[Lurker]

Great. Now the Asteroidians will shoot back.

L

[cyclotic]

One of my kids is an astronautical engineer at nasa. We had a family chat going as we all watched it live. (We do that frequently for big launches)

It’s a cool way to keep the family together. My trucker son even joined from his cab. (Of course he didn’t watch because he was driving)

We all think the mission is kind of dumb

[minnesota_bound]

The future after NASA's experiment. The asteroid changed direction

[Red Badger]

Everything about this mission could have been modeled on a computer. The Laws of Physics work in space as well as on the Earth.

The only variable they couldn’t model is “Can they actually hit it?”

But this rock is in a known orbit, and probably has been for millennia.

A dangerous rock is one that suddenly comes in from the outer fringes and intersects Earth’s orbit at a collision point.

THEN you have to do all kinds of calculations to get the trajectory and speed exactly right and the calculations to intersect that rock at exactly the right time and angle, with enough mass to either destroy it or nudge it into a different trajectory......................

[bert]

Hmmm...... OK but

I would counter suggest “a google of nerds”

[JimRed]

But it was computer modeling that gave us the phony global warming scam and its offshoot climate change, remember?

[Red Badger]

True, but physics is a lot simpler than the climate.................

[JimRed]

I have suggested for many years that asteroids of that type should have a rocket motor landed on them, to be fired at the appropriate time to change its trajectory to miss Earth by at least one moon’s distance. It would be more predictable than the results of crashing something into it.

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