NASA & SpaceX are knocking an asteroid into a new orbit today

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Topic: NASA & SpaceX are knocking an asteroid into a new orbit today

jemerson
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From: Phoenix
Registered: May 2021

posted September 26, 2022 01:44 PM

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

Live stream starts at 7pm EST.

I set an alarm with Siri and it saved as the 'don't mission' instead of DART lol. I'm excited, gonna watch it with my space-crazed nephew.

For anyone interested the asteroid is 65803 Didymos "twins" in Greek, named after its binary orbit with its satellite Dimorphos. The rocket will be crashing into Dimorphos in an effort to test an asteroid redirection technique.

"NASA's DART mission launched to Didymos at 1:21 a.m. EST on Nov. 24, 2021, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California."

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/didymos/in-depth/

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jemerson
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From: Phoenix
Registered: May 2021

posted September 26, 2022 06:40 PM

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/25/1124167790/jupiter-closest-earth-opposition-nasa

Jupiter’s opposition to the Sun today is also the closest it has been to Earth since 1963.

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