Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck can sit this one out.
. In fact, the concept behind DART just seems like a glorified game of bumper cars in the cosmos at first blush.
Johnson heads the agency’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office , a team of astronomers and scientists tasked with“warning and response to any potential impact of Earth by an asteroid or comet.” So far, much of the group’s work has been dedicated to finding and cataloging the tens of thousands of near-Earth asteroids—or an asteroid that comes within 93 million miles of the sun.
“First, we’ll have an understanding of the effectiveness of a kinetic impactor to deflect an asteroid in space,” Johnson explained. “Also, we’ll learn more about the composition of the asteroid. Although we think we have a good understanding of what’s going to happen, we always get a little bit of surprises when we do a mission like this.”an option, using them would be a very unlikely course of action for planetary defense.
In fact, Johnson said that the PDCO has several apocalypse-preventing projects that are in the “concept development” phase. Then there’s the delightfully sci-fi sounding ion beam deflector. This spacecraft would be armed with an ion engine and then launched to a deadly asteroid where it would fire ion beams at the space rock until its orbit changed.isn’t far off from becoming a reality. The only difference is instead of blowing up the asteroid or Death Star, it just sort of pushes it out of the way.
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