{"id":400,"date":"2022-09-27T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/?p=400"},"modified":"2022-09-27T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:54:09","slug":"the-dart-mission-and-deflecting-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"The Dart Mission and Deflecting Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Dart mission to send a craft to impact the Didymus B asteroid to deflect it seems to be a success, but the true results before the effects of doing this are known. Before the congratulations and hailing the success of the mission guaranteeing the people of earth a safe passage, we may need to consider the problem of timing and scale.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid that contributed to wiping out of the dinosaurs and causing the Chicxulub crater was a little bit bigger is mass, around 125 billion times and many of the world\u2019s astromomers are missing as many potential near earth or earth grazing objects until a few days or week before, possibly as many as 50% in this time frame. There was a lot of planning and about 6 months travel time going into the Dart project, so although\u00a0 it being a proof of concept it would possibly need to be scaled up to a similar difference between a home firework and the Hiroshima atomic explosion if a similar one were to arrive and may need to year to implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Dart mission to send a craft to impact the Didymus B asteroid to deflect it seems to be a success, but the true results before the effects of doing this are known. Before the congratulations and hailing the success of the mission guaranteeing the people of earth a safe passage, we may need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doomwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}