Don Pisto - 11-23-2021 at 04:49 PM
this is true sci-fi stuff.....tonight!
https://redwirespace.com/newsroom/a-new-era-for-planetary-de...
DART will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California no earlier than Wednesday, November 24, 2021, at 1:20 a.m. EST (10:20 p.m. PST
Tuesday, Nov. 23). The spacecraft will do something no other spacecraft has done before: it will crash itself into an asteroid in an effort to change
its trajectory. This is the kinetic impactor method of deflecting an asteroid, and it involves sending a spacecraft into the path of an approaching
NEO to deflect the asteroid into a different trajectory, steering it away from the Earth.
[Edited on 11-23-2021 by Don Pisto]
David K - 11-23-2021 at 05:22 PM
Just watch it bump it wrong and send it here! It was a fun ride, amigos!
Don Pisto - 11-23-2021 at 11:48 PM
right on time......see you in october
Bajaboy - 11-24-2021 at 07:31 AM
Heard a great story about this today on KPBS. Probably not true since it's MSM https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1056995884
Salsa - 11-26-2021 at 12:41 PM
I would compare it to throwing a bottle of water into a freight train and hope to derail it.
But If I were in charge I could get a few free lunches before they found out it was a complete fraud !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don