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DART asteroid mission (links)
Hello All,
As a test of one asteroid deflection method—kinetic impact—a new NASA/JHU-APL mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART, see: http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is...inkable-happens and http://www.google.com/#q=Double+Ast...edirection+test ), will send an ion drive spacecraft to slam into one component of the binary asteroid Didymos (whose two components orbit around the system’s center of gravity) at a velocity of approximately 6 km (3.7 miles) per second relative to the spacecraft’s target, and: Didymos was selected as the target because it is a binary asteroid, so that the impact will not significantly alter its orbit around the Sun. The DART spacecraft will impact on the smaller (~160 m [~525 ft.] wide) Didymos B component, which co-orbits with the larger (~780 m [~2,560 ft.] across) Didymos A. This will enable the kinetic impact-induced changes in Didymos B’s co-orbital motion with respect to Didymos A to be determined. This mission will serve as a practice drill for the day—which is not a matter of *if*, but of *when*—a potentially threatening asteroid is found to be on a path that will result in it colliding with the Earth.
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We don't need all of that...
Just have Kirok and Miramanee activate that alien obelisk thing to deflect the asteroid... Later! OL J R
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