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re: Watch DART successfully impact asteroid Dimorphous [video + gif]
Posted on 9/26/22 at 9:23 pm to RIPMachoMan
Posted on 9/26/22 at 9:23 pm to RIPMachoMan
Kind of like the other poster said… it looks like they zoomed in on a rock. Show me the impact from another angle, how much was it deflected, what was the outcome?
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Posted on 9/26/22 at 9:25 pm to CaptainJ47
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Show me the impact from another angle, how much was it deflected, what was the outcome?
A small spacecraft impacting a 100 meter wide solid iron rock isn’t going to do much.
It’s probably more of a proof of concept for using a 25 megaton nuke to do most of the deflecting.
Edit: Even then, it could take weeks or months to see a significant visual change in the asteroid trajectory. We’re talking about object with orbits around the Sun of planets of millions of miles.
This post was edited on 9/26/22 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 9/26/22 at 9:26 pm to CaptainJ47
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Show me the impact from another angle,
Maybe there was a CCTV camera on the bigger asteroid.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 10:09 pm to CaptainJ47
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Show me the impact from another angle, how much was it deflected, what was the outcome?
They forgot to send the accompanying probe.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 8:18 am to CaptainJ47
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Show me the impact from another angle
Sure...spend billions more to send a second rocket with it to get the angle shot.
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