{"id":25151,"date":"2022-09-27T04:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T04:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25151"},"modified":"2022-09-27T04:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T04:56:30","slug":"dart-impact-on-asteroid-dimorphos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25151","title":{"rendered":"DART: Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/do4Cb__WhlY\/maxresdefault.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Could humanity deflect an asteroid headed for Earth? Yes. Deadly impacts from large asteroids have happened before in Earth&#8217;s past, sometimes causing mass extinctions of life. To help protect our Earth from some potential future impacts, NASA tested a new planetary defense mechanism yesterday by crashing the robotic Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into Dimorphos, a small asteroid spanning about 170-meters across. As shown in the featured video, the impact was a success. Ideally, if impacted early enough, even the kick from a small spacecraft can deflect a large asteroid enough to miss the Earth. In the video, DART is seen in a time-lapse video first passing larger Didymos, on the left, and then approaching the smaller Dimorphos. Although the video ends abruptly with DART&#8217;s crash, observations monitoring the changed orbit of Dimorphos &#8212; from spacecraft and telescopes around the world &#8212; have just begun. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220927.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could humanity deflect an asteroid headed for Earth? Yes. Deadly impacts from large asteroids have happened before in Earth&#8217;s past, sometimes causing mass extinctions of life. To help protect our <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25151\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-25151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25152,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions\/25152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}