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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/nasa-unveils-plan-to-test-asteroid-defense-technique
>On Friday, the space agency announced plans to redirect the course of a small asteroid approaching Earth, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), according to a NASA press release.
>The target of the test is an asteroid system called Didymos, the release said. Didymos -- Greek for "twin" -- is a binary asteroid system, made up of one asteroid, Didymos A, and a smaller one, Didymos B, which orbits its larger neighbor.
>In October 2022, as Didymos makes an approach near Earth, NASA will launch a refrigerator-sized spacecraft towards the asteroids, aimed at Didymos B, the release said. When the DART spacecraft and the asteroid collide, the spacecraft will be traveling at a staggering 3.7 miles per second.
When will NASA stop bullying innocent asteroids, /sci/? Didymos A and B have been inseparable for billions of years and now NASA is going to savagely rip them apart for some experiment that does not need to happen to prove this simple concept.
Why is this allowed?
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>>9008102
NASA should pull the Asteroid to collide with Earth.
It would reduce the population, killing people, solving the overpopulation Crysis on Earth.
Just drop it in some shit hole.
It would also solve the Global Warming. Bringing an Ice Age.
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>>9008102
A refrigerator-sized projectile is capable of altering the trajectory of an asteroid? How large is the asteroid? Does the projectile have explosives?
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>>9008243
>not understanding physics
the faster something is going, the more force it has
you don't need to have a big projectile if it is a very, very fast projectile
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>>9008598
after doing the math, the projectile will only have 0.57659 tons of TNT of force behind it
that's not particularly strong
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surely if they were testing how effectively we could deal with an asteroid on a collision course with us they would be using a nuke right?
what knowledge could they possibly gain by fucking up a nice binary asteroid pair?
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>>9008609
>do we need to use a nuke every time
>can we just launch a brick at it do deflect
nukes are expensive lad
and people get antsy whenever they go off the ground, no matter the reason
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>Not letting nature take its course
Come on NASA, don't waste your time. If a bolide hits, then let's just accept it.
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>>9008639
>spreading your asscheeks for nature
go home you filthy elf
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>>9008602
Depends on the reference frame fampai. Let's suppose that it's a head-on collision, it might be going far faster in the asteroid's reference frame, compared to 3.7 mi/s earth reference frame.
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>>9008602
You only need a tiny result anyway. You don't want to bomb it out of the solar system. Just nudge it by fractions of a degree so it'll miss a few years later.
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>>9008649
I think that the collision is 3.7 mi/s from the asteroids reference frame. It would be pointless to calculate from Earths reference frame.
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>>9008102
Hope it lands on your house instead, Anon
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I'm more interested to see if the asteroid falls apart. It is just a lump of weakly bound rubble.
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>>9008102
cool
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>>9008966
But a popsci article trying to relate it to the masses would probably use earth's reference frame, to give a sense of scale.
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>>9010939
Just like American newspapers using football fields to measure everything.
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>>9008201
In a sense, it has to be done.
However, depending on what you believe, which kind of image would this portray of Earth to the intergalactic community?
Hopefully it wouldn't surmount to us undoing some kind of an intergalactic reservoir computing system. Then again us interacting with it could be both intentionally part of and the next step within that system.
Also, it could be a quantumly entangled deep space probe from an alien civilisation.
It's deliberate target may have been Earth, or near Earth. (Think big
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8LRxIANzQs).
Then again, it's probably just an asteroid.
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>>9011044
Confirmed high af
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>>9011044
The "In a sense it has to be done" post was supposed to be in reply to OP not "drag asteroid into our planet guy", clicked on the wrong button. My bad.
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