What, no thread on DART?

[IronWing]

Looks surreal

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/xp4le6

 

[brianmanahan]

In the real deal, the probe would bury a barb deep into the asteroid and then deploy tethered helium balloons to float the asteroid away from earth.

it's just simple physics

 

[Red Squirrel]

Not sure how viable this would be but say it's a ridiculously huge astroid and an impact won't do enough wonder how viable it would be to do a suicide burn to actually land on it, then use a drill and other instruments to break chunks off it, and toss them all in the same direction. By removing material from it and sending it one way it would create a momentum. I guess this is almost like blowing it up, but more controlled. The issue with this is you would need like 3x the fuel, and would that fuel be better off to just smack into it even harder.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

NASA released the official image of the impact.

 

[cytg111]

Aaaaaand the results are in.

It friggin worked! Mission success was slowing orbit down 10 minutes…. and 32 minutes was achieved.
Planetary defense system level the f up.
Eureka.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Or so they say. Would you expect them to say otherwise?

How do WE know?

 

[cytg111]

Or so they say. Would you expect them to say otherwise?

How do WE know?

Are you serious?

 

[brianmanahan]

Are you serious?

that's what they WANT ya ta think, man!

 

[BudAshes]

Or so they say. Would you expect them to say otherwise?

How do WE know?

Scientific method and peer reviews.