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Earth's First Planetary Defense
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12/24/2024
Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
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DART is the Double Asteroid Redirection Test.
00:05
The Earth is hit by asteroids and pieces of asteroids all the time.
00:10
Every year or so we get hit by things maybe the size of a table.
00:14
The kind of object that DART is going to visit is an object that's about the size of the Washington Monument.
00:20
Those kinds of objects hit us every few thousand years and they would cause severe damage on a regional scale.
00:27
We chose to do this demonstration at a binary asteroid.
00:31
It's called Didymos. This is actually approximately the shape of the May asteroid.
00:37
It's called Didymos A and it's moon, Didymos B.
00:41
What DART will do is DART will hit the secondary.
00:46
When it hits the moon it will change the orbit period.
00:49
And when it changes the orbit period it affects the timing of when the moon moves in front of or behind the primary.
00:59
Mostly what we're looking to do is change the speed of the incoming object by maybe a centimeter per second or so.
01:06
That's not very fast but if you do it enough seconds in advance you can cause it to miss the Earth entirely.
01:12
DART is a part of a larger collaboration called AIDA which pulls in all the experts of the world who can help their governments predict
01:23
and understand what it is that they can do and should do in the event that there was an incoming threat.
01:30
The DART mission that APL is pulling together will be the first mission in that flight line.
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