T he mission managers at NASA spent $330 million to send a refrigerator-sized spacecraft 7 million miles (11 million km) into space and punch an asteroid in the nose. And we should all be very glad they did, because today the Earth feels a little bit safer than it did yesterday.
Terrifying asteroid speeding towards Earth today, will come as close as 789000 km: NASA | Tech News
Now, NASA has warned that an asteroid named Asteroid 2022 TE1 is heading for Earth and is expected to pass by the planet closely today, October 13. Asteroid 2022 TE1 is already on its way towards us travelling at a staggering speed of 39744 kilometers per hour.
The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth today at a distance of just 789000 kilometers or 0.005273 astronomical units. An astronomical unit (AU, or au) is basically a unit of length equal to the average, or mean, distance between Earth and the Sun, that is, 149,597,870.7 kilometers.
NASA: DART mission successfully changed motion of asteroid Dimorphos | CNN
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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos when the NASA spacecraft intentionally slammed into the space rock on September 26, according to the agency.
Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.
"This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington.
Near-Earth asteroid tally ticks over 30,000 milestone
So, since the turn of the century astronomers have ramped up efforts to catalog objects whose orbits bring them close to Earth. These near-Earth asteroids are officially defined as those that come within about 45 million km (28 million miles) of our planet's orbital path around the Sun.
A range of observatories are keeping watch, and discoveries are gathered and tracked by ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC) and NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). And in early October, this list finally clocked the 30,000 object mark.
Arecibo Observatory-led Team Discovers Large Near-Earth Asteroid Has Changing Rotation | ...
A team of scientists led by Arecibo Observatory and the University of Central Florida has measured a change in the rotation period of the potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon, a future spacecraft target.
Phaethon is just the 11th asteroid with a measured change in its rotation period, and it is the largest of them.
NASA blasts asteroid off its path, but what’s next?
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test has been hailed a success by the project's investigation team after it found that the satellite successfully altered the asteroid Dimorphos' orbit.
The test was the planet's first attempt at changing the motion of a celestial object and the "first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology," according to NASA .
NASA successfully shifted an asteroid's orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos
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(THE CONVERSATION) NASA recently crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – was meant to test one potential strategy for preventing an asteroid from colliding with Earth.
NASA's first planetary defense mission is pronounced a success + One giant nudge for mankind! ☄️ Full story:… https://t.co/nFRgSKQQyQ MailOnline Wed Oct 12 08:16:18 +0000 2022
ＮＡＳＡ、小惑星軌道変更に成功 世界初の「地球防衛」実験で https://t.co/jrEPcwpgLH ReutersJapan (from Tokyo, Japan) Wed Oct 12 00:55:33 +0000 2022
This just in: The #DARTmission impact is confirmed to have changed the orbit of moonlet Dimorphos around its astero… https://t.co/EQxQ2sfteo NASA (from Pale Blue Dot) Tue Oct 11 18:32:37 +0000 2022
CONFIRMED: Analysis of data obtained over the past 2 weeks by the #DARTMission team shows impact with Dimorphos has… https://t.co/kxlvA5vtYO AsteroidWatch (from Washington, D.C.) Tue Oct 11 18:32:01 +0000 2022
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