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#300671 27-Sep-2022 12:07
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Live stream of DART asteroid impact in a few minutes.

 

 





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  #2973411 27-Sep-2022 12:48
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Thanks. I wonder where/when we will see results, comments.





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  #2973412 27-Sep-2022 12:49
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That was impressive for sure!


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  #2973463 27-Sep-2022 12:56
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Astounding the detail and image quality. Not to mention the accuracy. It really is very impressive what automated space machines can do these days. I am old enough to remember how improbable this kind of thing would have once seemed, and now it is practically routine. Quite an achievement!

 

My understanding is that the small probe that followed behind will have photos of the actual impact, but it will be several days before those become available.

 

 

 

 





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  #2973465 27-Sep-2022 13:00
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freitasm:

 

Thanks. I wonder where/when we will see results, comments.

 

 

There will undoubtedly be stuff on NASA's official Twitter stream (@NASA - https://twitter.com/NASA)

 

This NSF forum has some interesting posts https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47874.120 - points to page 7 (of 7 at the time of posting) of the thread.
NB nasaspaceflight.com is not an official NASA site, it's a reasonably respectable spaceflight enthusiast site, entirely SFW but a great time sponge if you're that way inclined


  #2973466 27-Sep-2022 13:04
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Rikkitic:

 

Astounding the detail and image quality. Not to mention the accuracy. It really is very impressive what automated space machines can do these days.

 

Accuracy looks almost exact dead centre, like this:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47874.msg2412829#msg2412829

 

 


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  #2973467 27-Sep-2022 13:08
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freitasm:

Thanks. I wonder where/when we will see results, comments.



Got to give it a few months. It's been observed on a known trajectory. And by tracking that in subsequent passes. Can tell if it altered it.

But reading up this was a satellite to a larger one. So the orbit time may be adjusted ~10mins which will indicate success


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  #2973593 27-Sep-2022 15:39
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PolicyGuy:

 

Rikkitic:

 

Astounding the detail and image quality. Not to mention the accuracy. It really is very impressive what automated space machines can do these days.

 

Accuracy looks almost exact dead centre, like this:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47874.msg2412829#msg2412829

 

 

You know when you eat a lot of nuts? Like, a LOT of nuts? That's what that looks like.

 

Also, does this mean Bruce Willis is out of a job?


 
 
 

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A DJ on Magic FM this morning did a five minute segment explaining the University of Canterbury just saved our planet Earth from a massive asteroid impact. He did not sound like he was joking at all.

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  #2981839 12-Oct-2022 09:42
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Oblivian: They hoped for 10min orbit change.

They got 32

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/nasas-dart-mission-successfully-changes-asteroids-orbit/DAOQXFNS2OOOYLFYLFTLNSSS4U/

 

 

In the next few years scientists will recalculate the orbit and find out that actually this change put the asteroid straight into our path...

 

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  #2981895 12-Oct-2022 11:18
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Rikkitic:

 

Astounding the detail and image quality. Not to mention the accuracy. It really is very impressive what automated space machines can do these days. 

 

 

It's fake. In the last photo, you can even see the (green) thread that holds the "asteroid" up for filming in the studio. (Obviously, they turned the camera on its side to disguise the direction of gravity).

 

 


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  #2981901 12-Oct-2022 11:27
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freitasm:

 

Oblivian: They hoped for 10min orbit change.

They got 32

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/nasas-dart-mission-successfully-changes-asteroids-orbit/DAOQXFNS2OOOYLFYLFTLNSSS4U/

 

 

In the next few years scientists will recalculate the orbit and find out that actually this change put the asteroid straight into our path...

 

😜

 

 

Yeah, yeah yeah....  :) 

 

FWIW: The "orbit" they altered was the asteroids path around another asteroid, ( Not the Sun) ,

 

So in terms of its relationship with us both the DART asteroid and its parent will continue un changed and in no chance of impacting earth...


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  #2981904 12-Oct-2022 11:32
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Awesome let's start crashing Falcon Heavies into stuff and seeing what happens.

 

(by stuff I mean 'the moon'. I always hated that thing.)


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  #2981929 12-Oct-2022 12:32
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Just call for Bruce Willis.


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