Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare introduce asteroid deflection through the familiar premise of an impact-disaster movie. The discussion sets up the distinction between destroying an asteroid and changing its path.
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0:46going to try out here is actually doing multiple episodes a week, but having our episodes be focused on a single story. So, today we're going to just be focused on the Dart mission with Planetary Defense, but you will see our faces two more times this week with a follow-up story, and we will have the rundown be its own episode type. And I have some ideas about some game show elements to test our resident PhD. As always, we are going to learn about the science from the ground up today because this is from First Principles.
1:35So if there is an asteroid coming to Earth, >> yes, >> I would like to not die. >> Armageddon, Deep Impact. >> Yeah. All of these. I I would I would like that not to happen. Okay. And it turns out the best way to have that happen is actually not to like
AstrophysicsOrbital MechanicsPlanetary DefensePrecision Measurement