Posted on Mar 16, 2021
NASA’s Plan to Stop an Asteroid Headed for Earth
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Just a short while ago, I posted a science video about a comet that passed between the moon and our Planet Earth... It is about the size of a small to medium sized commercial aircraft, which, if it struck Earth would do some very serious damage... This is something we will need to be in tune with for many years to come... This video has some great detail on NASA's plans for knocking an asteroid off it's trajectory!
From NASA/ Freethink.com:
Estimates say that a vehicle-sized asteroid explodes in our atmosphere about once per year, often too high to make a noticeable impact.
But in 2013, a small meteor exploded just 20 miles above Chelyabinsk, Russia that sent over 1,200 people to the hospital.
Today, a team of experts from NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office works diligently to find asteroids that travel near Earth’s orbit.
They’ve released a plan in order to prevent a large-scale asteroid impact, and part of this plan is the DART mission.
DART aims to travel to the asteroid Didymos in 2021 to demonstrate the tech that could be used to redirect an asteroid headed for Earth.
It's a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), whose Hera spacecraft will follow up and observe the results of the impact on the asteroid and map Didymos's surface and interior structure.
I hope you find this both interesting and informative as regards the possibility of a celestial object colliding with Earth like the one that killed life on Earth at the time of the dinosaurs...
Kerry
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From NASA/ Freethink.com:
Estimates say that a vehicle-sized asteroid explodes in our atmosphere about once per year, often too high to make a noticeable impact.
But in 2013, a small meteor exploded just 20 miles above Chelyabinsk, Russia that sent over 1,200 people to the hospital.
Today, a team of experts from NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office works diligently to find asteroids that travel near Earth’s orbit.
They’ve released a plan in order to prevent a large-scale asteroid impact, and part of this plan is the DART mission.
DART aims to travel to the asteroid Didymos in 2021 to demonstrate the tech that could be used to redirect an asteroid headed for Earth.
It's a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), whose Hera spacecraft will follow up and observe the results of the impact on the asteroid and map Didymos's surface and interior structure.
I hope you find this both interesting and informative as regards the possibility of a celestial object colliding with Earth like the one that killed life on Earth at the time of the dinosaurs...
Kerry
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They need to do it before the planet does get nailed by a comet, or meteor brother Sgt (Join to see)
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Good morning Sgt. Harkins very interesting video, I do remember the asteroid that hit Chelyabinsk, Russia. I don't think we need anymore of those.
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No we certainly do not... One reason why I decided to devote a little time to this subject with three science videos... Important "stuff" in my view, Gunny...
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We've been hit before, probably inevitable that it will happen again, however nice to have a plan.
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At least, Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen, a plan that has some level of a potential positive outcome... We know not what or how many celestial objects there are in space, which could collide with any planet in our solar system at any point in time...
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