{"id":710747,"date":"2021-12-09T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=710747"},"modified":"2021-12-09T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:37:50","slug":"nasa-goddard-helps-ensure-asteroid-deflector-hits-target-predicts-and-will-observe-impact-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=710747","title":{"rendered":"NASA Goddard helps ensure asteroid deflector hits target, predicts and will observe impact results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the chance of an\u00a0asteroid impacting Earth\u00a0is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across carries enough energy to cause widespread damage around the impact site. NASA leads efforts in the U.S. and worldwide both to detect and track potentially hazardous asteroids and to study technologies to mitigate or avoid impacts on Earth. If an asteroid were discovered and determined to be on a collision course with Earth, one response could be to launch a &#8220;kinetic impactor&#8221;\u2014a high-velocity spacecraft that would deflect the asteroid by ramming into it, altering the asteroid&#8217;s orbit slightly so that it misses Earth. NASA&#8217;s\u00a0Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)\u00a0will be the first mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection using a kinetic impactor.\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-12-nasa-goddard-asteroid-deflector-impact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA Goddard helps ensure asteroid deflector hits target, predicts and will observe impact results<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the chance of an\u00a0asteroid impacting Earth\u00a0is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across carries enough energy to cause widespread damage around the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}