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Tommorow, at 7:14 PM, the DART mission spacecraft will impact a near earth asteroid - Defending the Earth, Defending Humanity!
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https://dart.jhuapl.edu/
OAITW r.2.0
(24,446 posts)Future genations will appreciate that science was emplyed to help understand redirectional capababity of Earth to deflect catasrophic events.
Walleye
(31,002 posts)brush
(53,764 posts)Earth, moon, Mars, Venus, solar system time/space continuum off balance, throwing the Milky Way onto a collision course with Andromeda, our nearest galactic neighbor?
I can't deal with this right now. I'm going back to bed.
reACTIONary
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(53,764 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
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(33,320 posts)crickets
(25,960 posts)appreciate being able to come back and watch it. Neat asteroid.
When will we know how much DART changed the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos?
https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-impact-when-well-know
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)... I would have thought it would take longer than that.