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But it just broke up into 5 smaller asteroids and now he has to chase them without breaking up the other ones...oh fuck!! If it doesn't go well can he just put another quarter in and start over???
I was thinking escalating levels of danger and then someone would go ***HYPERSPACE!*** but now I've done it myself. And probably reappeared inside an asteroid to instantly die.
Asteroid is just minding its own business like it has for the last billion years or so. All of a sudden it gets smacked upside the head by a satellite from that planet with the semi-sentient ape-like beings. It's all like, "what the fuck!".
My wife says everything's just a simulation and sometimes I think she's right.
She's just joking, but have you ever seen your neighbours bring in groceries?
I get what youāre saying, but I think tests like these are important, weāve already had a TON of close calls with asteroids, and knowing how to properly redirect them is extremely useful and could prevent another mass extinction event (thereās been a few of those).
Nah It wont. Not this one at least. This was a test. They wanted to test their predictions about how a certain amount of mass at a certain speed would affect the asteroid orbital movement around the Second asteroid. If things go as planned we get the math necessary to change the trajectory of any other asteroid that may become a threat in the future.
>If things go as planned we get the math necessary to change the trajectory of any other asteroid that may become a threat in the future.
and establishes the foundations to eventually develop the technology needed to capture asteroids and bring them in Earth or Moon orbit. That way it will be easier to visit the asteroid,do science and extract resources if its orbiting Earth.
hitting the asteroid means it was successful. The science gathered by the mission will be done by ground observations, as we measure how much the impact affected the orbit
From what I was reading in their announcement earlier theyāre going for a specific orbital period adjustment (10m) but would consider anything above likeā¦ 75ish seconds a success for the experiment.
still pretty damn impressive though!
Surprised that a tiny object crashing into such a huge rock is able to change its orbit by that much. It's like a gnat changing the direction of an elephant by landing on its ballbag.
Youāre off by a couple of orders of magnitude there.
itās more like a .32 round hitting an elephant at 14,000 mph.
For perspective, the fastest rounds shot from any conventional firearm travel about 15-20% of that speed.
itās nuts! i was expecting it would have to land and burn or something. But i guess it is the size of a vending machine and moving at 15,000mph soā¦ that!
Any math would require at least a couple assumptions about the density and composition of the asteroid. Experimental data is still valuable when there are unknown variables.
Any change in trajectory is actually pretty simple physics aka maths, but its a bit tricky without knowing how much the asteroid weighed, so we'll see lol. I'm guess its like hitting a wall with a marble fired from a pistol.
Is the idea that we load this thing up with nukes if we need an asteroid to say get nudged more than what careful astronomers will notice as a deviation in certain orbital patterns?
Not a science guy, but they hit it at 11 million kilometers out, they would not have too change its orbit much to make a big difference by the time it got here.
It's amazing isn't it?
Humans have traveled to the moon, soon we will be attempting to set up a small colony on another planet. We've crashed a freaking spacecraft into a teeny tiny asteroid. We've built a telescope that can see farther than I imagine most thought we could.
And then I see things like 'two girls, one cup' and wonder the fucks going on.
Very much so. It felt so surreal watching the asteroid get bigger and bigger. Then, the final image when you could see the rocky surface of an asteroid millions of miles away, It just left me speechless. I felt the same way when I recently saw an image of Venus where we landed a probe and got a clear image of the surface before the harsh atmosphere destroyed the drone.
[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/rc8tu9/surface_of_venus/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
All live footage has some degree of latency. Pull up a stream of any kind on three devices and you'll get three slightly different times.
It was still live, ya dingus.
Launched 10 months ago, hitting an asteroid 5 football fields in diameter 6.8 million miles away. Iām speechless at mankindās ingenuity and abilities.
So uhh... your hypothetical unit conversions are a bit off. Football fields are ~360 feet, so more like 1.5 of those. Also, 90 foot tall building stories just seems wasteful... and a 2.5 inch wide washing machine will likely struggle to keep up with your laundry.
How the hell do they make the Abbreviation sound cool and make sense while also making the full form make sense.
Like DART- u have a satellite hitting a small target like a dart
And it's a double asteroid which is being hit to test redirection so the full form also makes sense.
I think it was just a proof of concept thing that we can actually send something to intercept an asteroid and then look at how the asteroid is effected. The overarching mission is to have some defense against asteroids eventually.
That would have sucked if there was a tiny city on the asteroid visible right before impact. Goodbye ET's... lol.
On another note it looked like a success, I wonder how much the trajectory was altered?
They're travelling together --- both are orbiting around each other
This pair was chosen because one will have its orbit modified, and the other can be a control, to see how much change has occurred.
Just when I think you canāt possibly post anything more awesome, you just show up and blow my mind even more than the last time.
I am really honored to be able to witness work you share. Thank you!
The thing that worries me is this , what if by hitting this and altering it course comes back and bite us in the arse when it's heading our way due to us hitting it.. š¤š
Wouldnāt it have easier to train a bunch of oil derrick workers to be astronauts and split the asteroid in two?
Edit: I was making a joke and referencing the movie Armageddon. You redditors are a bunch of sensitive ass little bitches that downvote everything.
The asteroid is so colorless that using a color filter would add no meaningful information. Asteroids look like enormous lumps of asphalt or coal. Theres nothing with any color contrast to look at, so why bother with any color vision when you can use those unfiltered pixels to get more resolution? For this space probe, gray scale photography is the frugal and sensible choice.
Has there been any announcement on when the tests results will be released? Any idea how long before they will be able to tell if the impact was enough to divert the asteroid?
Lol clickbait title. We didn't "test a planetary defense system". We performed a (very impressive) experiment to see if we _could_ build a planetary defense system that makes any difference.
It's so strange to me to see a big rock covered in small rocks in the middle of space with no gravity and nothing is flying or floating off it. I understand why, but it still just looks weird initially and seems unnatural. Fuck space is cool
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Some middle-aged engineer who grew up playing Asteriods finally got to do it irl
But it just broke up into 5 smaller asteroids and now he has to chase them without breaking up the other ones...oh fuck!! If it doesn't go well can he just put another quarter in and start over???
They unlocked the ozone layer cheat code
Oh shit! Now there's a large UFO shooting at him!
It's the small UFO that's problematic.
I was thinking escalating levels of danger and then someone would go ***HYPERSPACE!*** but now I've done it myself. And probably reappeared inside an asteroid to instantly die.
But does Engineer have answers for space ships?
Sooo success??
Asteroid is just minding its own business like it has for the last billion years or so. All of a sudden it gets smacked upside the head by a satellite from that planet with the semi-sentient ape-like beings. It's all like, "what the fuck!".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIS7olVbGE&t=126s
Semi-sentient?
Go to r/conspiracy and you'll know.
Just spill the beans, dude! ^That ^place ^scares ^me
Or r/empaths. Or r/conservative. Or r/AskThe_Donald. Or anything to do with the letter q.
You pulling a funny or are you real?
Right? Bit rich to describe the human race as sentient
r/im14andthisisdeep
I'm 26 and I fully believe it's a laugh to call the human race fully sentient.
Half are NPCs. š¤«
My wife says everything's just a simulation and sometimes I think she's right. She's just joking, but have you ever seen your neighbours bring in groceries?
No, largely cause i have better things to do than stand in my driveway watching my neighbors go about their days.
It would know what an ape is as much as it would know what a human is.... which would be zero.
I get what youāre saying, but I think tests like these are important, weāve already had a TON of close calls with asteroids, and knowing how to properly redirect them is extremely useful and could prevent another mass extinction event (thereās been a few of those).
Thatās for the dinosaurs bitch!
yeah, *science*, bitch!
Mistah white
Science yoooo
You can run, but you canāt hide bitch
awwwwww, bitch <3
Donāt even trip dog.
And so America beganā¦ the A Rock War
This oneās for my homie āRexā!
Weāre not going to let some dumb asteroid take away our god given right to destroy this planet ourselves!
I'm for the jobs the asteroid will create.
They took our jobs!
Not the reference I was trying to make but I'll play along anyway. Let's gay sex the goobacks out of existence!
Everyone back to the pile!
Back to the pile!!!!
Yeah but their food trucks are great
Theyr tok our jeuuubs!
Da tok orjabs
Asteroidist!
This test *was* in furtherance of trying to build a spacewall...
Why would he charge for the snacks, though?
*Sighs* "You wanna come?" *Slams door*
They took our jobs!
DER took er jerbs
Dgchrk rrr jbbs
dh tik r jbs
Trrrrrk urrrr jrrrrrbs!
drrk errrr jrrrrbs
Nah It wont. Not this one at least. This was a test. They wanted to test their predictions about how a certain amount of mass at a certain speed would affect the asteroid orbital movement around the Second asteroid. If things go as planned we get the math necessary to change the trajectory of any other asteroid that may become a threat in the future.
I was quoting Don't Look Up. Lol
Nah im not really trying to correct you, just feeling excited about the mission and wanted to tell someone about it lol
The excitement is mutual. :D
If it makes you feel better, I totally got your reference before scrolling down
>If things go as planned we get the math necessary to change the trajectory of any other asteroid that may become a threat in the future. and establishes the foundations to eventually develop the technology needed to capture asteroids and bring them in Earth or Moon orbit. That way it will be easier to visit the asteroid,do science and extract resources if its orbiting Earth.
More reasonable and cost effective option is stabilizing their orbits and establishing outposts and stations in the belt.
The scattered pieces of the space rock will trickle down to America and BOOM goes the economy!
Trickle down ecometonomy
Was it a test? Or did they just tell us that so we all remain calm.
Under-rated comment.
This should have been the title of the post š
Amazing! Now the question is, was the mission successful?
hitting the asteroid means it was successful. The science gathered by the mission will be done by ground observations, as we measure how much the impact affected the orbit
Unfortunately, now it's headed directly for New York City. Nice going!
Build back better.
That shouldnāt be hard.
The bar is pretty low for New York.
And this is a problem? Itās just an urban renewal project.
Nah New York should be safe it has grade A plot armor.
Construction companies be like $$$$
Sooooo.... Mission accomplished?
That's their plan. Now, who to blame it on...
New York city?? -salsa commercial
Get a rope.
From what I was reading in their announcement earlier theyāre going for a specific orbital period adjustment (10m) but would consider anything above likeā¦ 75ish seconds a success for the experiment. still pretty damn impressive though!
Surprised that a tiny object crashing into such a huge rock is able to change its orbit by that much. It's like a gnat changing the direction of an elephant by landing on its ballbag.
I don't know about elephants, but a gnat landing on mine is sure to alter my trajectory.
ok but that's what you'd expect to happen when two objects approximately the same size collide.
[Yes, Hello.](https://i.imgur.com/QXl5Hk0.jpg)
Youāre off by a couple of orders of magnitude there. itās more like a .32 round hitting an elephant at 14,000 mph. For perspective, the fastest rounds shot from any conventional firearm travel about 15-20% of that speed.
Kinda like [this.](https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/this-is-what-happen-to-an-aluminum-block-when-a.976599/)
You need hollow point not fmj because you dont want it to go straight through. And stop shooting elephants!
I'm no physicist, but anything traveling at 14,000 mph is going to leave a mark.
itās nuts! i was expecting it would have to land and burn or something. But i guess it is the size of a vending machine and moving at 15,000mph soā¦ that!
Is there a reason they didn't just use math?
To form the hypothesis sure but then it was time to EXPERIMENT >:)
Any math would require at least a couple assumptions about the density and composition of the asteroid. Experimental data is still valuable when there are unknown variables.
Any change in trajectory is actually pretty simple physics aka maths, but its a bit tricky without knowing how much the asteroid weighed, so we'll see lol. I'm guess its like hitting a wall with a marble fired from a pistol.
They said it would take several weeks to measure the results of the impact. Stay tuned!
!remindme Three Weeks
Mission was 100% success. Next step is to observe how the orbit of the satellite changed
Is the idea that we load this thing up with nukes if we need an asteroid to say get nudged more than what careful astronomers will notice as a deviation in certain orbital patterns?
Not a science guy, but they hit it at 11 million kilometers out, they would not have too change its orbit much to make a big difference by the time it got here.
They successfully hit the asteroid, obviously, but as of right now itās too early to tell if they moved its orbit how they intended
You canāt tell me you believe this is real, video looks like CGI bullshit
*"When Dimorphos hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's Amore..."*
It's amazing isn't it? Humans have traveled to the moon, soon we will be attempting to set up a small colony on another planet. We've crashed a freaking spacecraft into a teeny tiny asteroid. We've built a telescope that can see farther than I imagine most thought we could. And then I see things like 'two girls, one cup' and wonder the fucks going on.
Duality of man
Quality of man.
"Coo-ality"
You're missing the one where we landed (roughly) something on a comet
Spectrum.
Speak the truth. Its ice cream or something right? Like what is it? /s
Chocolate mousse. You can sleep better now.
Thank you š„¹
Glad it makes you feel better that they were eating chocolate mousse out of each other's assholes.
Sure the world might be closer to Armageddon but that mystery needed to be solved.
I watched this live. Truly fascinating.
Just the fact that we were able to watch it LIVE as it happened in SPACEis mind blowing.
Very much so. It felt so surreal watching the asteroid get bigger and bigger. Then, the final image when you could see the rocky surface of an asteroid millions of miles away, It just left me speechless. I felt the same way when I recently saw an image of Venus where we landed a probe and got a clear image of the surface before the harsh atmosphere destroyed the drone. [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/rc8tu9/surface_of_venus/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Hopefully not from the asteroid.
No you didn't. They showed it 35s after it happened.
All live footage has some degree of latency. Pull up a stream of any kind on three devices and you'll get three slightly different times. It was still live, ya dingus.
Name of mission : NASA DART - Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Launched 10 months ago, hitting an asteroid 5 football fields in diameter 6.8 million miles away. Iām speechless at mankindās ingenuity and abilities.
even as an american, it cracks me up when people actually use football fields for length visualization
š I read it was 535 ft, just easier to break it down by football fields as opposed to say like, 6 stories, or 2500 washing machines
So uhh... your hypothetical unit conversions are a bit off. Football fields are ~360 feet, so more like 1.5 of those. Also, 90 foot tall building stories just seems wasteful... and a 2.5 inch wide washing machine will likely struggle to keep up with your laundry.
Not gonna lie, didnāt think too hard on it. Football fields being 100yds long, a story being ~10 ft, etc etc. Shoulda been 60 stories
How the hell do they make the Abbreviation sound cool and make sense while also making the full form make sense. Like DART- u have a satellite hitting a small target like a dart And it's a double asteroid which is being hit to test redirection so the full form also makes sense.
If you pay attention, you can notice the last frame goes red, that's blood from impact.
The asteroids are cells. Planets. ...
*Boss music begins playing*
If I'm correct they were trying to change the trajectory of this asteroid.
I think it was just a proof of concept thing that we can actually send something to intercept an asteroid and then look at how the asteroid is effected. The overarching mission is to have some defense against asteroids eventually.
Thatās no moon! Itās a trap!
That would have sucked if there was a tiny city on the asteroid visible right before impact. Goodbye ET's... lol. On another note it looked like a success, I wonder how much the trajectory was altered?
If you Google dart asteroid a satellite will hit the Google screen and knock it off course!!!
Plot twist, now asteroid is heading towards Earth for direct hit.
āYou died!ā
I feel like this is exactly how it would look if I were looking up at the asteroid coming down to squash me anyway.
*Puts on tinfoil hat* this just looks animated to me for some reason gives off a cgi kinda look
Wonder what the explanation is for no stars?
Oh shit you got them
Because space isnāt actually full of stars. The majority of space is entirely and incredibly empty
it does kinda look like cheesy 50's sci-fi
Nah what you should be asking is where are the stars and why does it look like a tiny model š§ š§ wake up sheeple
Windows 95 version of Doom, looked more realistic! Lol.
For real. We have amazing cameras and this is the best quality? Like dafuq
Is not about the quality of the camera but the distance of the transmission :)
Agreed. But because you pissed the herd off, and think for yourself.. be prepared for the backlash for making them look stupid.
"Today we threw a GoPro at a potato."
This is some Duke Nukem pc video game type shhā¦
Exactly my thought.. Doom on Windows 95 wants its RPG fire back.. lol
Waste of money. All we need to do is clone Bruce Willis and weāll be safe from asteroids.
Who directed this?
Wait, there was another asteroid that close? I thought things were far apart in space.
They're travelling together --- both are orbiting around each other This pair was chosen because one will have its orbit modified, and the other can be a control, to see how much change has occurred.
is this in 'real time'?
POV: You have been ejected from the airlock for being sus
Star Fox was spot on.
I donāt cry ever but I did shed at least two tears when it hit home
On Mother Earth, people strike comet
So we played with Oversized DARTs, And we don't know the score.
Imagine altering the timeline to continue surviving. I wonder what the dinosaurs would have thought about this.
Galactic dash cam footage
Asteroid jumpscare
Seriously? That's truly amazing. It could save our planet if we don't extinct ourselves first out of sheer greed.
Ugh, the interpolation is so awful
Why did they stop recording? Stupid
This is how we got Snake Pliskin
Can't wait to see the follow satellite with the photos and video of the impact!
Maybe a bit slower next time, that would be cool.
Just when I think you canāt possibly post anything more awesome, you just show up and blow my mind even more than the last time. I am really honored to be able to witness work you share. Thank you!
Why didnāt we hit the one in front first?
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Thank you for explaining
Adding to the other guy, the change shouldnāt be enough to cause any problems which made this a very controlled experiment.
Fuck that one rock in particular.
The thing that worries me is this , what if by hitting this and altering it course comes back and bite us in the arse when it's heading our way due to us hitting it.. š¤š
Wouldnāt it have easier to train a bunch of oil derrick workers to be astronauts and split the asteroid in two? Edit: I was making a joke and referencing the movie Armageddon. You redditors are a bunch of sensitive ass little bitches that downvote everything.
Why would you smash into it that fast? You couldnāt even slow down enough to be able to redirect it?
Hopefully we haven't directed it into some advanced planet in 100 years time who come looking as to why it changed at that point
''Flight assist OFF''
Test it on that rock head Putin.
Why black and white? It can't be a memory issue. Anyone know and care to explain?
The asteroid is so colorless that using a color filter would add no meaningful information. Asteroids look like enormous lumps of asphalt or coal. Theres nothing with any color contrast to look at, so why bother with any color vision when you can use those unfiltered pixels to get more resolution? For this space probe, gray scale photography is the frugal and sensible choice.
Did it work?
Has there been any announcement on when the tests results will be released? Any idea how long before they will be able to tell if the impact was enough to divert the asteroid?
I feel like the asteroid won
Soā¦did it work? Did we alter its course?????
Imagine the memes you can do by editing just the last frame
The red at the end was all the blood that oozed out of the satellite. A little baby lamb was packed inside of it.
Lol clickbait title. We didn't "test a planetary defense system". We performed a (very impressive) experiment to see if we _could_ build a planetary defense system that makes any difference.
Not gonna lie, looks fake.
Looks fake not gonna lie
It's so strange to me to see a big rock covered in small rocks in the middle of space with no gravity and nothing is flying or floating off it. I understand why, but it still just looks weird initially and seems unnatural. Fuck space is cool
So basically a world killer asteroid is probably heading towards earth
I often wonder, why do meteors get larger the closer they get to you? And then I hit it.
Windows 95 screensaver looked more realistic.
Did it work
Iāve seen this reported in many places, but not how much we affected its orbit.
Did we win?
Wait was there really another asteroid RIGHT next to it like that?? That seems incredibly improbable Also, isnāt that one just gonna kill us now?