NASA is testing one technique it might use should a large asteroid threaten to collide with Earth. But just how high are the odds of such a dangerous space rock after all? You don't need to panic.
The newly-launched Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART , is designed to test whether hitting an asteroid with a spacecraft can alter the rock's trajectory enough to avoid a predicted collision with the Earth, given enough lead time.
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Inside a giant, white clean room on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers and scientists have been putting the finishing touches on a spacecraft that, this time next year if all goes according to plan, will be on its way to another world.
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Michael Bay ’s 1998 “ Armageddon ” may have been a critical flop, but the space disaster movie has proven to be prescient as far as astronomy is concerned.
“I told you so. But no one wanted to listen to me. NASA’s DART rocket lifted off today! It’s going to do a little BAYHEM in space!” wrote Bay, whose next film is February’s “Ambulance” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, on Instagram. (See the post below.)
This near-Earth asteroid may be a chunk knocked off of the moon
A near-Earth asteroid discovered in 2016 may have once been part of the moon — making it unlike any space rock we've ever seen.
The satellite: An asteroid is classified as "near-Earth" if it's within 121 million miles of the sun. Right now, we know of about 27,000 such space rocks, but only five are "quasi-satellites," meaning they stick relatively close to Earth's path while making their orbit around the sun.
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The claims were disproven, and the two women subsequently divorced. But with more and more people making their way into orbit every year it's only a matter of time before the first outer-space crime is committed.
The first attempt to draft a set of laws governing space travellers dates back almost 30 years before the first manned space flight. A Czech legal expert published a book about the problems space travel might represent for lawyers.
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The dust has only just settled on the wild ride that was Wes Anderson’s ode to classic journalism, The French Dispatch , but the one-of-a-kind filmmaker is already preparing to release the next addition to his prolific filmography with the feature film known simply as Asteroid
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