{"id":11663,"date":"2021-10-05T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T21:59:04","slug":"dart-to-didymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/05\/dart-to-didymoon\/","title":{"rendered":"DART to Didymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-10061965\/NASA-launch-mission-deflect-asteroid-hitting-Earth-November-agency-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;Planetary defense!&#8217; NASA will launch November mission to deflect &#8216;devastating&#8217; asteroid from hitting Earth by NUDGING it with a spacecraft, agency says<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By CHRIS CIACCIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/10\/05\/18\/48797763-10061965-image-a-53_1633456730155.jpg\" alt=\"NASA said on Monday that its mission to deflect an asteroid in deep space using a spacecraft is targeting a late November launch\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><br><em>NASA said on Monday that its mission to deflect an asteroid in deep space using a spacecraft is targeting a late November launch<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/nasa\/index.html\">NASA<\/a>&nbsp;said on Monday that its mission to deflect an asteroid in deep space using a spacecraft is targeting a late November launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the U.S. space agency will send the DART spacecraft to a pair of asteroids &#8211; the Didymos binary &#8211; at 1:20 a.m. EST on November 24 aboard a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/spacex\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SpaceX<\/a>\u00a0Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DART will smash in one of the two asteroids, known as Didymoon, at roughly 13,500mph on October 2, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-10061965\/NASA-launch-mission-deflect-asteroid-hitting-Earth-November-agency-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Daily Mail<\/a> ]<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Look%20at%20this%3A%20NASA%20will%20launch%20mission%20to%20deflect%20asteroid%20in%20November&amp;body=NASA%20said%20on%20Monday%20that%20its%20mission%20to%20deflect%20an%20asteroid%20in%20deep%20space%20using%20a%20spacecraft%20is%20targeting%20a%20late%20November%20launch%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fsciencetech%2Farticle-10061965%2FNASA-launch-mission-deflect-asteroid-hitting-Earth-November-agency-says.html%3Fito%3Demail_share_article-image-share%0A%0A%0AMost%20Read%20Articles%0A%0ANew%20type%20of%20killer%20whale%20that%20hunts%20large%20mammals%20including%20grey%20whale%20calves%2C%20elephant%20seals%20and%20dolphins%20is%20discovered%20off%20the%20west%20coast%20of%20the%20US%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fsciencetech%2Farticle-10064549%2FNew-type-killer-whale-preys-large-sea-mammals-discovered-west-coast-US.html%3Femail_share_article-image-share_most-read-articles%0A%0AHundreds%20of%20bizarre%20three-eyed%20%27dinosaur%20shrimp%27%20emerge%20in%20temporary%20lake%20formed%20by%20torrential%20downpours%20in%20Arizona%20after%20lying%20dormant%20for%20decades%C2%A0%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fsciencetech%2Farticle-10066009%2FBizarre-three-eyed-dinosaur-shrimp-emerge-lake-formed-torrential-downpours-Arizona.html%3Femail_share_article-image-share_most-read-articles%0A%0ATwitch%20is%20HACKED%3A%20More%20than%20100GB%20of%20data%20is%20leaked%20online%20from%20the%20gaming%20platform%20-%20including%20confidential%20company%20information%20and%20streamers%27%20earnings%C2%A0%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fsciencetech%2Farticle-10065043%2FTwitch-source-code-details-posted-online-apparent-data-leak.html%3Femail_share_article-image-share_most-read-articles\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Mail &#8216;Planetary defense!&#8217; NASA will launch November mission to deflect &#8216;devastating&#8217; asteroid from hitting Earth by NUDGING it with a spacecraft, agency says By CHRIS CIACCIA NASA said on Monday that its mission to deflect an asteroid in deep space using a spacecraft is targeting a late November launch NASA&nbsp;said on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}