NASA Successfully Intercepts An Asteroid (1 Viewer)

[Genxersrule]

In what potentially could have planet saving repercussions, the geniuses at NASA were able to slam a spacecraft into an oncoming asteroid to test if a kinetic impact would have the ability to move a killer asteroid.

With all the lousy stuff going on in our country and the world today it's welcome news to hear that smart people are still around trying to solve complex problems.

Kudos NASA and all the way smarter than me science guys and gals who made this happen.

NASA's DART mission successfully slams into an asteroid | CNN

A NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into a tiny asteroid on Monday. The collision between the DART spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorphos happened at 7:14 p.m. ET in humanity's first test of asteroid deflection technology.

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[NutterButter]

Bruce Willis is not impressed

 

[Grace Under Pressure]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

 

[belljr]

Johns Hopkins deserves most of the credit

 

[beer 30]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

I agree, think it's pretty cool we pulled this off. Now we just need to step up our efforts to identify incoming asteroids.

 

[Genxersrule]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

Yep, that's the idea and will take several weeks to get new a new trajectory from the asteroid. It is small, only 500 feet across. Not near big enough to wreck the planet, but would wreck a city pretty good.

 

[E Street Brat]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

Yep, that's the idea and will take several weeks to get new a new trajectory from the asteroid. It is small, only 500 feet across. Not near big enough to wreck the planet, but would wreck a city pretty good.

I just hope they didn't knock into an earth orbit path.

 

[Genxersrule]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

Yep, that's the idea and will take several weeks to get new a new trajectory from the asteroid. It is small, only 500 feet across. Not near big enough to wreck the planet, but would wreck a city pretty good.

I just hope they didn't knock into an earth orbit path.

Haha I thought the same exact thing. I'm assuming they considered that...

 

[ChiefD]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

Yep, that's the idea and will take several weeks to get new a new trajectory from the asteroid. It is small, only 500 feet across. Not near big enough to wreck the planet, but would wreck a city pretty good.

I just hope they didn't knock into an earth orbit path.

Thought the same thing.

That would be our luck:

2020: Covid
2021: More Covid
2022: Monkey Pox
2023: Asteroid

 

[The General]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

Yep, that's the idea and will take several weeks to get new a new trajectory from the asteroid. It is small, only 500 feet across. Not near big enough to wreck the planet, but would wreck a city pretty good.

I just hope they didn't knock into an earth orbit path.

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[E Street Brat]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

Yep, that's the idea and will take several weeks to get new a new trajectory from the asteroid. It is small, only 500 feet across. Not near big enough to wreck the planet, but would wreck a city pretty good.

I just hope they didn't knock into an earth orbit path.

Haha I thought the same exact thing. I'm assuming they considered that...

opps
Close enough for government work.

 

[Ned]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

Yep, that's the idea and will take several weeks to get new a new trajectory from the asteroid. It is small, only 500 feet across. Not near big enough to wreck the planet, but would wreck a city pretty good.

I just hope they didn't knock into an earth orbit path.

Haha I thought the same exact thing. I'm assuming they considered that...

opps
Close enough for government work.

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[massraider]

I just hope they didn't knock into an earth orbit path.

Starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman.

This Summer

 

[Leroy Hoard]

They can get rid of asteroids but hemorrhoids are here forever?

 

[Frostillicus]

This was a clearly a test because they've already found a different, planet killing asteroid.

 

[gianmarco]

This is great work. I'm very interested to hear by how much the asteroid was deflected, i.e. can we change the course of an incoming asteroid enough to cause a likely impactor to miss the Earth entirely.

Yep, that's the idea and will take several weeks to get new a new trajectory from the asteroid. It is small, only 500 feet across. Not near big enough to wreck the planet, but would wreck a city pretty good.

I just hope they didn't knock into an earth orbit path.

Thought the same thing.

That would be our luck:

2020: Covid
2021: More Covid
2022: Monkey Pox
2023: Asteroid

Bingo!