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☆ NASA simulated an incoming asteroid impact, and the biggest roadblock to action was penny pinchers in Congress
  + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
The tabletop simulation presented a hypothetical scenario in which cities like Dallas, Washington, DC, and Madrid were at risk of a large asteroid impact. "A large asteroid impact is potentially the only natural disaster humanity has the technology to predict years in advance and take action to prevent," Lindley Johnson, a NASA planetary defense officer emeritus, said in a press release. That's because they didn't think Congress would approve funding for a critical space mission to study the asteroid "unless impact became certain," NASA's summary said. Options for preventing an asteroid impact include shooting the asteroid with lasers, launching a nuclear bomb at it, or simply smacking a space probe into it to nudge it away from Earth. Participants weren't sure Congress would fund the mission unless the asteroid was a certain threat — not a 72% chance of threat.
Persons: —, Lindley Johnson, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Anna Moneymaker, Ed Whitman, Johnson, Richard Binzel, Binzel, it's Organizations: Service, NASA, Business, Capitol, US State Department, FEMA, Defense Interagency, JHU, MIT, NASA DART, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Academies, White Locations: Dallas , Washington, Madrid, Europe, Japan, Canada, North America, Africa
☆ NASA explains how it would alert the public of an apocalyptic asteroid strike
  + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Ellyn Lapointe | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
In the event of an impending hazardous asteroid strike, NASA already has its plan in place to alert the public. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office is tasked with finding, tracking, and assessing the risk associated with potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system. To do that, NASA works with a global coalition of astronomers called the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN). There are about 2,300 known potentially hazardous asteroids out there, and roughly 153 of them are larger than 0.6 miles across. If Bennu does head toward Earth, NASA has a few tricks up its sleeve to defend our planet.
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☆ NASA's unprecedented DART mission will intentionally slam a spacecraft into an asteroid next week
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test will collide with an asteroid on September 26. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in November 2021, with the aim of nudging a space rock into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion asteroid. The $308 million spacecraft traveled 6.8 million miles from Earth to Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting the asteroid Didymos. NASA JPL DART Navigation TeamOn Monday, September 26, four hours before impact, DART will switch into autonomous mode, steering itself toward its target. An animation from behind as NASA's first planetary defense test mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, collides with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.
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