{"id":159698,"date":"2023-03-07T05:44:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-results-from-nasas-dart-mission-confirm-we-could-deflect-deadly-asteroids"},"modified":"2023-03-07T05:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:44:51","slug":"new-results-from-nasas-dart-mission-confirm-we-could-deflect-deadly-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-results-from-nasas-dart-mission-confirm-we-could-deflect-deadly-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"New Results From NASA\u2019s DART Mission Confirm We Could Deflect Deadly Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/108650530?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This larger-than-expected result shows the change in Dimorphos\u2019 orbit was not just from the impact of the DART spacecraft. The larger part of the change was due to a recoil effect from all the ejected material flying off into <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/space\/\">space<\/a>, which Ariel Graykowski of the SETI Institute and colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-023-05852-9\">estimated<\/a> as between 0.3 percent and 0.5 percent of the asteroid\u2019s total mass.<\/p>\n<p><b>A First Success<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The success of NASA\u2019s DART mission is the first demonstration of our ability to protect Earth from the threat of hazardous asteroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This larger-than-expected result shows the change in Dimorphos\u2019 orbit was not just from the impact of the DART spacecraft. The larger part of the change was due to a recoil effect from all the ejected material flying off into space, which Ariel Graykowski of the SETI Institute and colleagues estimated as between 0.3 percent and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159698","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}