{"id":8469,"date":"2017-07-05T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2017-08-02T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:57:34","slug":"nasa-asteroid-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/05\/nasa-asteroid-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Asteroid Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/national\/nasa-unveils-plan-to-test-asteroid-defense-technique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from CNN via ClickOrlando<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique<\/h1>\n<h2>DART launch set for October 2022<\/h2>\n<p>By DAKIN ANDONE, CNN<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqt4US72yec\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>(CNN)<\/strong> &#8211; Humanity could face one less doomsday scenario if <a class=\"_magnetEntNameitent_210-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/NASA?entityid=43953&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a> has its way.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the space agency announced plans to redirect the course of a small asteroid approaching Earth, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), according to a NASA press release.<\/p>\n<p>The release notes that asteroids hit Earth nearly every day, but most are small enough to burn up in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>But the DART project &#8212; a joint effort between NASA and the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland &#8212; is for the asteroids that are too big to break up &#8212; those that could have severe consequences for the Earth if they hit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DART would be NASA&#8217;s first mission to demonstrate what&#8217;s known as the kinetic impactor technique &#8212; striking the asteroid to shift its orbit &#8212; to defend against a potential future asteroid impact,&#8221; said Lindley Johnson, NASA&#8217;s planetary defense officer in Washington, in the press release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This approval step advances the project toward an historic test with a non-threatening small asteroid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/national\/nasa-unveils-plan-to-test-asteroid-defense-technique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at ClickOrlando<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN via ClickOrlando NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique DART launch set for October 2022 By DAKIN ANDONE, CNN (CNN) &#8211; Humanity could face one less doomsday scenario if NASA has its way. On Friday, the space agency announced plans to redirect the course of a small asteroid approaching Earth, as part [&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-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","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=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}