NASA confirms asteroid strike results in 'nudge'

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(11 Oct 2022)
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Washington - 11 October 2022
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"Good afternoon, everybody. Two weeks ago, NASA made history once again. We conducted humanity's first planetary defense test."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"And now the team has confirmed that the spacecraft's impact altered Dimorphos' orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes and therefore successfully moved its trajectory."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nancy Chabot, Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory:
"It's within the range of the models that have been studied, but it's also definitely indicating that you're getting an enhanced deflection due to the amount of ejecta, that rocky material that's being thrown off when Dart's collision happened.
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nancy Chabot, Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory:
"And it just gave it a small nudge. But if you wanted to do this in the future, potentially it could potentially work, but you'd want to do it years in advance. Warning time is really key here in order to enable this sort of asteroid deflection to potentially be used in the future as part of a much larger planetary defense strategy."
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STORYLINE:
A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.
The space agency attempted the first test of its kind two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth's way.
The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike trail of dust and rubble stretching several thousand miles (kilometers). It took days of telescope observations from Chile and South Africa to determine how much the impact altered the path of the 525-foot (160-meter) asteroid around its companion, a much bigger space rock.
Before the impact, the moonlet took 11 hours and 55 minutes to circle its parent asteroid. Scientists had hoped to shave off 10 minutes but Nelson said the impact shortened the asteroid's orbit by about 32 minutes.
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Yeah now since you are acting like you're God and can control the universe what are you going to do if it was on its right course and you just wronged it

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Bunch of lies.
People actually believe this bs?

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