It's important to try to monitor the asteroids that are in Earth's neighborhood, because

if one were to impact Earth, we would want to know there was a time when we didn't have

weather satellites and you didn't know that a hurricane was approaching except maybe the way the sky started behaving or the weather started behaving, but you didn't know that a hurricane was approaching, except maybe the way the sky started behaving

and the weather started behaving,

but you didn't have the type of notice that we have now,

the ability to know that, okay, this particular region of the coastline

is likely to be affected.

If you have the capability to do that for asteroids,

it would be the responsible thing to use that capability.

Because if you had notice,

if you knew years or decades in advance that an asteroid

was going to impact Earth,

you could actually do something about it. This is NASA's curious universe.

Our universe is a wild and wonderful place.

I'm your host, Patty Boyd, and in this podcast, NASA is your tour guide.

Welcome back to another season exploring our incredible universe.

We've got a lot in store over the next eight weeks, and we're so glad you're along for

the ride.

While we were on a break, NASA's dartART mission successfully collided a spacecraft head-on

with an asteroid named Dimorphus,

over 7 million miles from Earth.

Oh, wow.

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