Live Q&A with NASA Planetary Defender

Live Q&A with NASA Plan­e­tary Defender



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NASA plan­e­tary defend­er Dr. Kel­ly Fast has a hard and fast rule: “Find aster­oids before they find us.” Work­ing in NASA’s Plan­e­tary Defense Coor­di­na­tion Office, Kel­ly is help­ing send the #DART­Mis­sion to test “nudg­ing” an aster­oid in space. DART, short for Dou­ble Aster­oid Redi­rec­tion Test, is a plan­e­tary defense-dri­ven test of tech­nolo­gies for pre­vent­ing an impact of Earth by a haz­ardous near-Earth object. DART will be the first demon­stra­tion of the kinet­ic impactor tech­nique to change the motion of an aster­oid in space. NOTE: the tar­get aster­oid is cur­rent­ly not a threat to Earth.

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