T he mission managers at NASA spent $330 million to send a refrigerator-sized spacecraft 7 million miles (11 million km) into space and punch an asteroid in the nose. And we should all be very glad they did, because today the Earth feels a little bit safer than it did yesterday.
Terrifying asteroid speeding towards Earth today, will come as close as 789000 km: NASA | Tech News
Now, NASA has warned that an asteroid named Asteroid 2022 TE1 is heading for Earth and is expected to pass by the planet closely today, October 13. Asteroid 2022 TE1 is already on its way towards us travelling at a staggering speed of 39744 kilometers per hour.
The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth today at a distance of just 789000 kilometers or 0.005273 astronomical units. An astronomical unit (AU, or au) is basically a unit of length equal to the average, or mean, distance between Earth and the Sun, that is, 149,597,870.7 kilometers.
Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.
"This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington.
Near-Earth asteroid tally ticks over 30,000 milestone
So, since the turn of the century astronomers have ramped up efforts to catalog objects whose orbits bring them close to Earth. These near-Earth asteroids are officially defined as those that come within about 45 million km (28 million miles) of our planet's orbital path around the Sun.
A range of observatories are keeping watch, and discoveries are gathered and tracked by ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC) and NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). And in early October, this list finally clocked the 30,000 object mark.
NASA DART mission succeeds in changing asteroid's orbit - The Washington Post
NASA's attempt to thwap an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft into it has succeeded spectacularly, changing the rock's motion through space significantly and offering promise that this still-experimental technique could someday be applied as a practical form of planetary defense, agency ...
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was just that — a test. The targeted asteroid, named Dimorphos, posed no threat. It won't come within 4 million miles of Earth at any point in the foreseeable future. Dimorphos orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos.
NASA blasts asteroid off its path, but what’s next?
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test has been hailed a success by the project's investigation team after it found that the satellite successfully altered the asteroid Dimorphos' orbit.
The test was the planet's first attempt at changing the motion of a celestial object and the "first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology," according to NASA .
Asteroid's path altered in NASA's first test of planetary defense system | SaltWire
The $330 million proof-of-concept mission, which was seven years in development, also represented the world's first test of a planetary defense system designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.
Astronomical measurements over the past two weeks showed the target asteroid was bumped slightly closer to the larger parent asteroid it orbits and that its orbital period was shortened by 32 minutes, NASA scientists said.
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Nasa's Dart spacecraft 'changed path of asteroid' https://t.co/Xtu36nsVm7 BBCWorld (from London, UK) Wed Oct 12 09:42:02 +0000 2022
NASA has announced that its DART mission, which plowed a spacecraft into a small asteroid 6.8 million miles from Ea… https://t.co/5poFHnygpx MailOnline Wed Oct 12 08:16:19 +0000 2022
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