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xongsmith
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Message 1 of 8 (898604)
09-27-2022 1:12 AM


i was looking for where all the JWST posts were and couldn't find them, so this is a new thread.
I just watched a delayed video of the live feed and WOW. Andy Chang, who thought up the whole DART program while excercising one day, was in the Zoom channels as it hit, reacting to the images as we were reacting.
They are now busy waiting to measure the orbit change and get images from the cubesat photos, but the DART pictures of the egg-shaped subasteroid covered with boulders were exciting to watch.
they are expecting the change to be about 10 minutes of the 11+ to 12 hour orbit around the bigger asteroid, Didimeus. spellings are phonetic estimates, sorry about that.

"I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside."
Death to #TzarVladimirtheCondemned!
Enjoy every sandwich!

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Message 2 of 8 (898608)
09-27-2022 9:27 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by xongsmith
09-27-2022 1:12 AM


Cronkite: And darts the way it is
I've got to look this DART thing up on google, unless you can explain the significance of it. Is it a probe designed to land on an asteroid?

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Message 3 of 8 (898614)
09-27-2022 10:10 AM
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Re: Cronkite: And darts the way it is
Oh, Phat you are so disconnected from reality. How could you not know what DART is?

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Message 4 of 8 (898618)
09-27-2022 10:35 AM
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09-27-2022 10:10 AM


Re: Cronkite: And darts the way it is
jar would accuse me of spending all my time on Christian radio, but the truth is I just work a lot and normally don't have much interest in science ...until Cleverbot came along!
I suppose I can google what I need to know.

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain "
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“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
(1894).


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Message 5 of 8 (898620)
09-27-2022 10:50 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by xongsmith
09-27-2022 1:12 AM


First Knowledge of DART Mission
I just watched the live feed. Incredible and a testimony to technology! I was more interested in the reactions of the team after the mission successfully ended. They have a lot emotionally invested in their work and it is fascinating to watch! I suppose that if it someday saved the planet it would shed a tear the world over.

Edited by Phat, .


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Message 6 of 8 (898625)
09-27-2022 11:28 AM
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09-27-2022 10:50 AM


Re: First Knowledge of DART Mission
do you now know what it is?
it's Step One in developing a planetary defense system for Earth.
can a kinetic object colliding into a threatening asteroid deflect it enough to make it miss?
they should have some analysis today.

"I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside."
Death to #TzarVladimirtheCondemned!
Enjoy every sandwich!

- xongsmith, 5.7dawkins scale


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Message 7 of 8 (898634)
09-27-2022 12:37 PM
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09-27-2022 10:35 AM


Re: Cronkite: And darts the way it is
DART has pretty much been headline news for the last day or two.

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Message 8 of 8 (898638)
09-27-2022 12:59 PM
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09-27-2022 11:28 AM


Re: First Knowledge of DART Mission
Yes.

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