Dr Michelle Dickinson: NASA's new asteroid defence program test
An episode of the The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin podcast, hosted by Newstalk ZB, titled "Dr Michelle Dickinson: NASA's new asteroid defence program test" was published on September 24, 2022 and runs 4 minutes.
September 24, 2022 ·4m · The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin
Episode Description
Asteroids colliding with the Earth has been a plot element in many movies, but NASA's new experiment is set to test out a practical solution to the real thing that doesn't involve Bruce Willis.
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). A mission which launched on November 23rd 2021 which has the challenging goal of crashing its spacecraft into a small asteroid tomorrow, Monday, September 26.
Dr Michelle Dickinson, is here to talk us through it before we find out the results of the experiment.
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