{"id":6845,"date":"2015-10-03T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2015-10-05T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:56:39","slug":"deflecting-didymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/03\/deflecting-didymoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Deflecting Didymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/6669619\/Plan-to-save-the-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"articleHeadline web-font\">Plan to save the world from Armageddon<\/h1>\n<p class=\"articleSubDeck\"><strong>Space mission will deflect asteroid in practice to avoid doomsday destruction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.thesun.co.uk\/aidemitlum\/archive\/02507\/02_a030aabe-680d-1_2507612a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.thesun.co.uk\/aidemitlum\/archive\/02507\/02_a030aabe-680d-1_2507612a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/img.thesun.co.uk\/aidemitlum\/archive\/02507\/02_a030aabe-680d-1_2507612a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">click to enlarge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SCIENTISTS are planning a space mission to nudge an asteroid out of its orbit in a practice run for saving the world.<\/p>\n<p>IN a project reminiscent of 1998 movie Armageddon, the joint European-US Asteroid Deflection and Assessment mission will crash a probe into the space rock to test a possible doomsday-stopping scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Nasa and the European Space Agency plan to plough a device into the 525ft Didymoon to test the principle that a much larger asteroid threatening the Earth could be deflected.<\/p>\n<p>Two spacecraft, one to smack into the rock and the other to monitor the effects of the impact, will launch in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>They are due to get to Didymoon and its 2,460ft-wide partner Didymos in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Patrick Michel, lead investigator for the European Space Agency, said: \u201cTo protect Earth from potentially hazardous impacts, we need to understand asteroids much better.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/6669619\/Plan-to-save-the-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Sun<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Sun Plan to save the world from Armageddon Space mission will deflect asteroid in practice to avoid doomsday destruction click to enlarge SCIENTISTS are planning a space mission to nudge an asteroid out of its orbit in a practice run for saving the world. IN a project reminiscent of 1998 movie Armageddon, the [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845","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=6845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}