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Thu Sep 29, 2022, 12:55 AM Sep 2022

Asteroid Smashing Looks Like Nothing You Ever Imagined



NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission finished yesterday in a spectacular crash into the Asteroid Dimorphos

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Asteroid Smashing Looks Like Nothing You Ever Imagined (Original Post) Justice matters. Sep 2022 OP
Mission Success. Another one for Science. Zero so far for prayer. MagaSmash Sep 2022 #1
She "drove" it: Meet Julie Bellerose: the Quebecer who deflected an asteroid ;) Justice matters. Sep 2022 #2

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2. She "drove" it: Meet Julie Bellerose: the Quebecer who deflected an asteroid ;)
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 02:18 PM
Sep 2022
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/meet-julie-bellerose-the-quebecer-who-deflected-an-asteroid-1.6086425

On Monday, Quebecer Julie Bellerose was at the controls of a space probe that deflected an asteroid in a planetary defence test.

The Canadian Press spoke with the woman who grew up in Sainte-Julie, Que. and dreamed of space while watching Star Wars.

Bellerose shed a tear Monday night when the space probe called Dart hit an asteroid at a speed of more than 22,500 km/h, nearly 10 million kilometres from Earth.

"I shed a tear. We were relieved to see that everything went well and that we achieved our goal, our objective with the mission, so it was amazing to see that. For sure, there were a lot of emotions, and then, it's a pride also to see that really the whole experiment worked well," said the chief navigator of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


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