Announcement NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

[COLGeek]

A free presentation, with Q&A, regrading DART. Might be of interest to some members:

DART: Can We Change an Asteroid’s Course and Save Planet Earth?

A special extended SETI Talks and Live Mission Watch

www.eventbrite.com

 

[billslugg]

DART mass upon impact is 500 kg and speed is 6,600 meters/second.
The kinetic energy is 1/2 * 500 * 6,600^2 or 1e10 joules. This is ten seconds of a one gigawatt output. Surely it will be visible through telescopes.

 

[COLGeek]

DART mass upon impact is 500 kg and speed is 6,600 meters/second.
The kinetic energy is 1/2 * 500 * 6,600^2 or 1e10 joules. This is ten seconds of a one gigawatt output. Surely it will be visible through telescopes.

I certainly hope so. That would be fascinating in and of itself.