![]() This camera was programmed to take a video showing whether or not Dimorphos would be moved by the hit. The day before it was to hit, which was September 28, 2022, the rocket spit out a small contraption the size of a shoe box made in Italy that had a camera in it. The rocket took almost a year to get to its target. In other words, it was none of our business. ![]() This behavior, taking place in the vacuum of space between Mars and Jupiter for who knows how long, took place way, way away - about as far away from us as we are from the Sun. Meanwhile, the pair were busy circling the Sun once every 2.11 years. ![]() Its target, Dimorphos, an asteroid just 525 feet across and circling Didymos, a larger asteroid half a mile across, completes its orbit every 11 hours 55 minutes. The rocket, the size of a school bus and built by SpaceX, was fired off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Novemat 1:21 a.m. It’s the first time in history that Earthlings have caused something in the universe to do this. Asteroid Dimorphos, circling asteroid Didymos and posing no threat to the Earth, got hit and moved by what we sent up. Last week, we learned this real-life effort to nudge an asteroid had succeeded. Let’s send up a rocket and see if we can hit it and get it to veer off to somewhere else. If it hits, life as we know it will be over. In the films, an asteroid is heading toward Earth. It appeared in the issue of Dan’s Papers published on Hamptons International Film Festival weekend, something newsworthy to report because creative people in the industry had caused a piece of their fiction to happen in real life. I wrote briefly about this a few weeks ago. This activity came about because of several movies made in the 1990s. I mention this because it seems to me that this year, NASA has thrown caution to the wind as far as Goldilocks planets are concerned by firing off a spacecraft with an explosive device on its nose to see if it could be made to hit an asteroid in outer space and alter its course. Later, as telescopes got stronger and stronger, there were more.īy the most recent count, we now believe there are as many as 16 planets beyond our solar system that could be teeming with life. The first, in 2010, was discovered by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Because of these planets’ relationship to their nearby suns, they could easily support balmy temperatures, flowing water and oxygen while circling their suns. In more recent years however, we began to discover planets in the universe that could be home to lifeforms like us. For a long time, this search came up empty.Ĭoded radio messages containing basic information about humanity and Earth began to be sent into space from Arecibo, an observatory on a mountaintop in Puerto Rico in 1974. For many years, scientists and astronomers have been searching the heavens looking to see if there was any life like ours out there. ![]()
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