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Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare introduce a discussion of NASA's DART mission and its implications for planetary defense. They also announce a change to the show's episode format.

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0:00Hello internet. This is your captain speaking Lester Nar joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD Krishna Chowdery. Today we have a wonderful episode. We're going to do a story, a research paper on planetary defense covering one of NASA's most audacious missions, the Dart mission. Uh spoiler alert, it worked. But where it gets interesting is in the how and the why. And we're going to take a quick pause here to talk about a slight change to the programming. For many of you who have been listening to us for quite some time, you know that we do weekly

0:40episodes and the demand has just been insane for us to do more. So, what we're

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    Can We Stop an Asteroid? The Physics Behind NASA’s DART Mission

    How NASA’s DART mission proved we can nudge an asteroid—and maybe save Earth.

    Can We Stop an Asteroid? The Physics Behind NASA’s DART Mission

AstrophysicsOrbital MechanicsPlanetary DefensePrecision Measurement