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6 hours ago, 40shades-of-blue said:

I watched it. They nudged it…barely. If you know long enough ahead of time that is all it takes. Something much larger you would need to nudge it quite a bit more. Wonder if they know something?….

They said its a 1000 miles wide and will pass by earth in 2029 throwing it off its course  is the goal.

I'll BE PULLING ON MY ROD - TILL THEY LAY ME IN SOD!!!!!
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4 mins ago, richie c said:

Didymos or Dimorphus are great rap names

Didymos Def and Dimorphus Jones in concert at the Met Friday nite.

Let's have a fling there.

Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.
-Thomas Jefferson
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
-Soren Kierkegaard

 

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8 hours ago, Slacker said:

The goal was to slightly change its orbit.  They know that they hit it. Now they have to determine if it changed the orbit to the extent that they were trying to achieve.

Correct. It's an experiment to see if potential asteroid collisions with earth can be avoided by altering their course slightly. 

Pfantum Pfishah

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2 mins ago, bdowning said:

Correct. It's an experiment to see if potential asteroid collisions with earth can be avoided by altering their course slightly. 

If something in space moves a little doesn't everything else within its gravitational pull move a little,  until a bunch of little things move a big thing?

Then we spiral into the sun....

how lucky am i

to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard


Shooting a coon in a 60ft tree out of a boat in the dark holding a flashlight can be tricky. ..
 

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6 hours ago, Baccigalup said:

They said its a 1000 miles wide and will pass by earth in 2029 throwing it off its course  is the goal.

Or perhaps throwing it onto course?

Humans, even supposed smart ones, do a lot of dumb chit.

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Just now, ken r said:

Or perhaps throwing it onto course?

Humans, even supposed smart ones, do a lot of dumb chit.

Those smart people are gonna kill us all lol

how lucky am i

to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard


Shooting a coon in a 60ft tree out of a boat in the dark holding a flashlight can be tricky. ..
 

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11 hours ago, makorider said:

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17 seconds out:

 

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5 seconds

 

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Data won't be available for a few weeks.  The italians apparently had an IROC-Z running parrallell with DART imaging the impact, we won't see that until later this week

FIFY

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

 

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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