NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in attempt to knock it off course

NASA is trying an experiment to answer a question that's straight out of science fiction. What could we do if a large object was hurtling through space on a collision course with Earth? Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien joined William Brangham to discuss the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART.
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NASA's DART asteroid now has a massive comet-like tail after dramatic spacecraft crash

The DART mission was designed to test whether smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid could significantly alter its trajectory. If successful, it would mean we could count on the technology to redirect a potentially hazardous asteroid away from Earth, if needed.
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Bam! NASA Spacecraft Crashes into Asteroid in Defense Test

The galactic slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (11.3 million kilometers) away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the space rock at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid’s orbit.
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NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test

The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the small space rock at 14,000 mph. Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid’s orbit.
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NASA's DART spacecraft successfully crashed itself into an asteroid

The experiment — which wrapped up on Monday night shortly after 7 pm EST with the total obliteration of the spacecraft — will yield results that could help humans ward off dangerous colliders from space in the future. The Solar System is littered with rocks, many of which burn up before striking Earth’s surface. But behemoths can overcome our atmosphere’s erosive nature and smack into our planet with, at times, drastic consequences.
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NASA Will Soon Attempt to Crash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid

Traveling at 14,000 miles per hour, a NASA spacecraft will slam into an asteroid Monday evening in an attempt to alter the flying rock’s trajectory in space. The asteroid poses no danger to Earth, but researchers want to test whether this approach is feasible in case of a future threat of impact.
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NASA's DART Spacecraft To Crash Into Asteroid, Testing Earth's Planetary Defenses

NASA's DART Spacecraft To Crash Into Asteroid, Testing Earth's Planetary Defenses NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft willintentionally crashinto an asteroid about double the height of the Empire State Building and 525 feet wide. It will be the world's first kinetic impact technique using a spacecraft, testing planetary defenses against an asteroid. On Monday, the 19-meter spacecraft will crash into Dimorphos to observe if a kinetic impact could alter the course of the asteroid. Impact with Dimorphs is expected around 1914 ET. "After the final maneuver on Sept. 25, approximately 24 hours before impact, the navigation team will know the position of the target Dimorphos within 2 kilometers [1.2 miles]
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NASA Dart spacecraft rams into an asteroid in defense test

The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (9.6 million kilometers) away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the small space rock at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid’s orbit.
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NASA's DART asteroid now has a massive comet-like tail after dramatic spacecraft crash

The DART mission was designed to test whether smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid could significantly alter its trajectory. If successful, it would mean we could count on the technology to redirect a potentially hazardous asteroid away from Earth, if needed.
— Interesting Engineering (October 4)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

Watch NASA's DART spacecraft hit 'bullseye' by smashing into an asteroid

DART recorded and beamed back its final moments with its onboard Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical Navigation (DRACO), which was also responsible for automatically navigating the spacecraft onto its collision course. As DART came ever closer to the space rock, its camera feed showed the asteroid's landscape bloom from a single pale gray pixel to a rough and craggy terrain strewn with sharp, shadowy rocks.
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NASA's DART spacecraft successfully crashed itself into an asteroid

The experiment — which wrapped up on Monday night shortly after 7 pm EST with the total obliteration of the spacecraft — will yield results that could help humans ward off dangerous colliders from space in the future. The Solar System is littered with rocks, many of which burn up before striking Earth’s surface. But behemoths can overcome our atmosphere’s erosive nature and smack into our planet with, at times, drastic consequences.
— Inverse (September 26)   (Pocket)  (Media Bias)

NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft nears planned impact with its target

Ten months after launch, NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world's first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a doomsday collision with Earth.The cube-shaped "impactor" vehicle, roughly the size of a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, was on course to fly into the asteroid Dimorphos, about as large as a football stadium, and self-destruct around 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) some 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from Earth.The mission's finale will test the ability of a spacecraft to alter an asteroid's trajectory with sheer kinetic force, plowing into the object at high speed to nudge it astray just enough to keep our ...
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NASA's DART Spacecraft To Crash Into Asteroid, Testing Earth's Planetary Defenses

NASA's DART Spacecraft To Crash Into Asteroid, Testing Earth's Planetary Defenses NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft willintentionally crashinto an asteroid about double the height of the Empire State Building and 525 feet wide. It will be the world's first kinetic impact technique using a spacecraft, testing planetary defenses against an asteroid. On Monday, the 19-meter spacecraft will crash into Dimorphos to observe if a kinetic impact could alter the course of the asteroid. Impact with Dimorphs is expected around 1914 ET. "After the final maneuver on Sept. 25, approximately 24 hours before impact, the navigation team will know the position of the target Dimorphos within 2 kilometers [1.2 miles]
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Nasa DART spacecraft to smash into asteroid in Earth protection test mission

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, Nasa is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of kilometres away.
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Report: UCF vs. SMU to Be Played Wednesday Due to Hurricane

After Hurricane Ian struck Southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm system earlier this week, multiple schools in the state were forced to evaluate the status of their games this weekend. The game between UCF and SMU was originally scheduled for Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET, and was first postponed by the American Athletic Conference on Tuesday to a Sunday kick at 1 p.m. ET.
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The Ghouls Descend On Florida Only to Be Disappointed

Hurricane Ian was an especially challenging natural phenomenon for hydrological, meteorological, and geographical reasons. Ian was a Category 4 — almost Category 5 — hurricane. That meant wherever it came ashore, it was going to wreck things. It carried storm
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In 36 hours, Ian blew up from storm to Cat 4. Climate change may make that more common

Hurricane Ian is a category 4 storm Wednesday as prepares to make landfall on the Florida Gulf coast near Fort Myers.
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Hurricane Ian slams Florida's west coast as Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds

Hurricane Ian blasted ashore Wednesday afternoon near Fort Myers, Florida and the damage is likely to be catastrophic. At landfall, its sustained winds hit 150 mph after pulling power from the gulf's warm waters. John Yang reports.
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Ian Makes Landfall in Southwest Florida As Category 4 Storm

The hurricane’s center struck Wednesday afternoon near Cayo Costa, a protected barrier island just west of heavily populated Fort Myers. The massive storm was expected to trigger flooding across a wide area of Florida as it crawls northeastward across the peninsula.
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Hurricane Ian to unleash 'life-threatening' flooding in Florida as Category 4 storm

Hurricane Ian strengthened to a Category 4 storm early Wednesday (Sept. 28) morning having just passed over western Cuba, causing an island-wide blackout and killing at least two people. The storm's center is due to reach Florida's western shore within hours, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned (opens in new tab) at 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday.
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How Hurricane Ian compares to the strongest hurricanes that hit Florida

Hurricane Ian is barreling toward Florida's west coast, bringing with it the threat of "catastrophic" winds and storm surge as it verges on becoming a Category 5 storm. The big picture: Only four hurricanes on record have made landfall in the U.S. with maximum sustained winds of greater than 155 mph, per Philip Klotzbach, a researcher at Colorado State University.In total, 14 Category 4 or 5 hurricanes have made landfall in Florida since 1851, the earliest data available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to Klotzbach.If Hurricane Ian makes landfall at its current maximum wind intensity, it would become the fifth-strongest hurricane to strike the U.S.
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Analysis: What many Nobel laureates have in common -- and how it can be learned

We looked at the careers of Nobel Prize winners, who are arguably among the most innovative people in the world. We found that they are unusually likely to be what we call “creative polymaths.” That is, they purposely integrate formal and informal expertise from widely varied disciplines to yield new and useful ideas and practices.
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A Nobel Laureate Prize Fight for the Ages

Gunnar Myrdal vs. Friedrich Hayek. There stood a pair of leading heavyweights — a Swede and an Austrian — who were nothing alike. They went into the ring with radically different ideas and theories about the “dismal science” (not to
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Economy Needs Productivity Surge: Nobel Laureate Michael Spence Says

Economy Needs Productivity Surge: Nobel Laureate Michael Spence Says Rachel Moltz Fri, 09/30/2022 - 11:04 interview with Michael Spence Off Thu, 09/29/2022 - 11:39Hoover Daily Report Friday, September 30, 2022 5 Bloomberg Markets and Finance
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Vatican Disciplined Nobel Laureate Bishop Over Child Abuse Claims

After accusations against him became public, the Vatican said that in 2020 it had punished Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, a hero of the independence movement in his native East Timor.
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The Endpoints 11: Fireside chat with Nobel Prize laureate Phil Sharp

On Thursday evening in Boston I had the great good fortune to talk about the creation of the biotech industry with Nobel Prize-winning scientist Phil Sharp. I learned quite a bit about the early days of Genentech, Biogen and Alnylam, which all helped birth this unusual drug development ecosystem. And that’s why we can do things like the Endpoints 11. Here’s my talk with Phil Sharp, which you can either watch or read below. The following Q&A has been edited for length and clarity. John Carroll: We’ve had a chance to talk a little bit before here about some of the things that you’ve done.
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Is the Covid-19 pandemic over? The answer is more art than science

President Biden told Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” it was. The Sunday night interview aired just days after the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the end may be in sight — though Tedros clearly didn’t mean it was days away when he predicted it.
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Health officials warn of 'shocking' rise in STDs during COVID pandemic

The nonprofit news service Pew Stateline reported last week that cases of congenital syphilis in newborn infants in Columbus, Ohio, rose from 7 in 2019 to 20 in 2021. So far this year, there have been 28 cases, including one that resulted in the death of a child.
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Is the Covid-19 pandemic over? Experts share their predictions for 2023

The problem is that what “back to normal” feels like may differ from person to person, depending on the individual’s circumstances and by what criteria they are judging the pandemic to be over. Three scholars of different parts of U.S. society affected by the pandemic — public health, education, and the economy — evaluated how “over” the pandemic is in their worlds.
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What can we learn from rapidly developed patient decision aids produced during the covid-19 pandemic? - The BMJ

Since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, the scientific, medical, and public health responses have been remarkable. Scientific developments include an understanding of viral transmission, the effectiveness of public health measures, and the deployment of effective vaccines and antivirals.3 Although much work still needs to be done to ensure that these measures are equitably implemented worldwide, the speed of progress was remarkable. WHO estimates, for example, that over 11 billion vaccine doses have been given; although distribution of vaccine varies widely.4 These scientific developments have led to a wide variety of health decisions related to covid-19—including those made by governments, particularly by public health authorities; the vaccine and drug industry; and groups of health professionals.
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COVID pandemic created immunisation gaps in Africa. Over half a million children are at risk

Routine immunisation has resulted in diseases like measles being drastically reduced. Laszlo Mates/shutterstockThe COVID pandemic exposed the fault lines in health systems and national routine immunisation programmes around the world. A recent World Health Organization (WHO) report showed that the pandemic fuelled the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccine coverage rates. These declines threaten to undo the exceptional efforts made in preventing and controlling the devastating burden of vaccine preventable diseases globally. Routine immunisation has prevented two to three million deaths yearly. Of the lives saved, 800,000 were in the Africa region. Routine immunisation has led to a drastic reduction in diseases like neonatal tetanus and measles.
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You Vote: Is the COVID-19 pandemic over?

However, the Biden administration has yet to lift the public health emergency that was first declared in 2020 for COVID-19. Plus, the administration is continuing to use the pandemic to justify a range of ambitious policies such as large-scale student loan cancellation.
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Biden: "The pandemic is over"

President Biden declared the COVID-19 pandemic "over" in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" airing Sunday evening.What he's saying: "The pandemic is over," Biden told CBS' Scott Pelley. "We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it
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James Webb and Hubble telescope images capture DART asteroid collision

NASA made history this week after an attempt to slam its DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft into an asteroid nearly 7 million miles away proved successful. While NASA shared some close-up images of the impact, it observed the planetary defense test from afar as well, thanks to the help of the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes. On the surface, the images aren't exactly the most striking things we've seen from either telescope, but they could help reveal a lot of valuable information.This was the first time that Hubble and JSWT have observed the same celestial target simultaneously. While that was a milestone for the telescopes in itself, NASA suggests the data they captured will help ...
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Wow! Webb Telescope finds a failed star with clouds made of sand

In its first few months of operation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is already proving that it was well worth the wait! To date, it has provided astronomers with the most detailed and precise images of the cosmos, conducted observations of iconic galaxies and nebulae, peered to the very edge of the Universe and obtained spectra from distant exoplanets. These resulting images, made public through the JWST Early Release Science (ERS) program, have provided a good cross-section of what this next-generation observatory can do.
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See NASA's DART Asteroid Crash Through the Lens of Webb, Hubble Telescopes - CNET

NASA wasn't about to miss the chance to capture its historic ambush of an asteroid through the eyes of its most powerful space observatories. On Thursday, NASA and the European Space Agency released new images taken by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes showing the moment the DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos.
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Webb, Hubble telescopes capture images of DART asteroid crash. Take a look

NASA released spectacular images of the asteroid-smashing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe into the space rock Dimorphos on Monday, captured by two of the space agency's Great Observatories, the James Webb Space Telescope and its older counterpart Hubble Space Telescope.
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'Shiny, sparkly object' in James Webb space image - BBC

'Shiny, sparkly object' in James Webb space imageBBCWebb telescope spies a celestial sparkler among the universe's earliest galaxiesCBS NewsJames Webb Telescope Helps Discover the Most Distant Star Cluster Ever, Possibly Housing Some of Universe's Oldest StarsThe Weather ChannelGalaxy sparkles with clusters in JWST imageAstronomy MagazineNasa’s James Webb Space Telescope spots candidate for location of first stars ever formed in universe
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Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope spot plume from DART struck asteroid

The DART spacecraft smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, which is 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth, at 7:14 p.m. ET on Monday (Sept. 26), marking humanity's first attempt to test its planetary defense system by altering an asteroid's trajectory.
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NASA engineer honored for work overseeing launch of James Webb Space Telescope

The Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, or Sammies, are given out each year to celebrate our nation's public servants. NASA's Greg Robinson received the flagship award of Federal Employee of the Year for his work managing the construction and implementation of the James Webb Space Telescope. Robinson joined Judy Woodruff before this week's ceremony to talk about his journey to stardom.
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