{"id":147989,"date":"2022-10-11T19:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-dart-craft-successfully-knocked-asteroid-into-a-new-orbit"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:24:04","slug":"nasas-dart-craft-successfully-knocked-asteroid-into-a-new-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-dart-craft-successfully-knocked-asteroid-into-a-new-orbit","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s DART Craft Successfully Knocked Asteroid Into a New Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-dart-craft-successfully-knocked-asteroid-into-a-new-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bull\u2019s-eye: NASA\u2019s DART craft successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos by colliding into the rocky body two weeks ago, according to the space agency.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zhzn0U2m5wQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The test shows humanity has the capability to stop an asteroid from hitting the planet, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said in a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zhzn0U2m5wQ\" target=\"_blank\">press conference (Opens in a new window)<\/a>. \u201cIf an Earth-threatening asteroid was discovered, and we can see it far enough away, this technique could be used to deflect it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) was a spacecraft about the size of a refrigerator. When it collided with Dimorphos on September 26th, it was traveling at 14,000 miles per hour, which caused a noticeable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/watch-live-nasa-crashes-dart-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid-on-purpose\">impact<\/a> that telescopes and radar images were able to capture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bull\u2019s-eye: NASA\u2019s DART craft successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos by colliding into the rocky body two weeks ago, according to the space agency. The test shows humanity has the capability to stop an asteroid from hitting the planet, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said in a Tuesday press conference (Opens in a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}