2/2: #Bestof2021: The Expectation of Planetary Defense. Andy Rivkin @asrivkin, planetary astronomer on #TeamAsteroid, @JHUAPL. David Livingston @SpaceShow SpaceShow.com (Originally posted December 3, 2021)
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2/2: #Bestof2021: The Expectation of Planetary Defense. Andy Rivkin @asrivkin, planetary astronomer on #TeamAsteroid, @JHUAPL. David Livingston @SpaceShow SpaceShow.com (Originally posted December 3, 2021)
https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart
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| 0:00.0 | I was set on being a Mounted Police Officer from a young age, but I knew it |
| 0:04.5 | had to move to make it happen and for me the Met presented endless opportunities. |
| 0:08.9 | From joining as a PC at age 23 I went into a variety of roles from emergency |
| 0:14.6 | response to public order policing. As a sergeant in the Mounted Branch my dream job |
| 0:19.9 | became reality. Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see where |
| 0:24.3 | my career takes me next. Become a Met Police Officer, search Met Police |
| 0:28.4 | careers. |
| 0:34.7 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batch with David Livingston, my colleague in |
| 0:39.0 | co-pilot of hotel Mars and we're very pleased to have Andy Rivkin of the |
| 0:44.4 | double asteroid redirection test, the Dart mission from NASA. Now underway. |
| 0:48.7 | Dart is headed to rendezvous with DITIMO's, the asteroid, the binary |
| 0:52.7 | asteroid in the September of 2022. Andy's the lead investigator. However, he |
| 0:59.4 | also studies asteroids as a day job and a night job all the time. He has the |
| 1:04.7 | joy of asteroids, asteroids with water ice asteroids, maybe with liquid ice, |
| 1:09.2 | asteroids and all flavors. However, the larger story is why do we want to ram |
| 1:14.8 | the little buddy of a binary asteroid? What do we want to learn about this |
| 1:19.6 | redirection? Is that real or is that Hollywood? Andy, my understanding is that |
| 1:25.7 | this is about near-earth objects and planetary defense. It sounds like a |
| 1:30.8 | science fiction movie. But if I read the statistics on the site and translate |
| 1:36.2 | from meters to English feet, there are lots of asteroids out there that are |
| 1:43.0 | smaller than 140 meters, that is 140 feet, 140 meters. And we've only tracked |
| 1:48.7 | about 40% of them. Where are the others, Andy? And what are we going to do |
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