Dimorphos

(I have Gemini rising, lol)

Next comes

Didymos

I guess I'm a geek cuz this is exciting for me.

NASA to see if spacecraft can deflect deadly space rocks to crash into asteroids

On September 26 this year, NASA will purposefully crash a spacecraft into an asteroid – to see what happens next. Credit social media It’s the first step toward a practical solution if an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth — a mission to push potential doomsday asteroids onto less-threatening flight paths. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently took a first look at…

On rare occasions, asteroids can pose a threat to Earth. This is because their orbits are constantly evolving and so eventually one will find itself on a collision course with our planet. To safeguard against this, we are developing mitigation strategies. This panel is about the state of the art in asteroid deflection.

DART has been built over the last one and a half years, the agency said. (Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman) Hazardous Asteroids: US space agency NASA is all set to launch its planetary defense test mission – the first one to be carried out yet. The mission is called Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART and it will be launched on November 23. Giving an update on the mission, NASA said…

However, this is not as easy as it seems. (Representational image) Asteroid disruption: Asteroids have been a worrisome aspect for scientists for a long time, who worry about what would happen if another asteroid collision were to take place. The worries are not unfounded, since it was after all an asteroid attack that wiped dinosaurs off the face of the Earth. Hence, scientists have been looking…

Ha! Take THAT, asteroid. Didn't see that coming did you? (Don't tell your bigger near-Earth space rock buddies though.)

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