Posted on Nov 22, 2021
In a first test of its planetary defense efforts, NASA's going to shove an asteroid
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NASA is about to launch an unprecedented mission to knock an asteroid slightly off course.
In the first real-world test of a technique that could someday be used to protect Earth from a threatening space rock, a spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday at 10:20 p.m. PST.
NASA is about to launch an unprecedented mission to knock an asteroid slightly off course.
In the first real-world test of a technique that could someday be used to protect Earth from a threatening space rock, a spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday at 10:20 p.m. PST.
In a first test of its planetary defense efforts, NASA's going to shove an asteroid
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This is something that has interested me for sone time. While I am sure we are on track for a positive defense we have to be cognizant of the misfire. There are so many factors with a mission like this that make it miraculous in nature. Hope we are on it.
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Anyway, what about the gravity thing that NASA said a few years ago about objects in space?? The gravity-mass of one could pull the other off course.
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