Fri. 09/23 - Asteroid SMASH
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Want to give a special someone a gift they'll truly love this Valentine's Day? |
| 0:04.8 | Treat them to something that never goes out of style. |
| 0:07.7 | A beautiful bouquet of 12 red roses. |
| 0:11.1 | They're classic for a reason. |
| 0:12.9 | And all for just £15 at Waitrose. |
| 0:16.3 | Selected lines and stores. |
| 0:17.6 | Subject to availability ends 14th of february it's friday september 23rd |
| 0:28.3 | 22 i'm jackson bird today why is nassas slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid on monday |
| 0:36.6 | and what will we be able to see of the collision? |
| 0:39.8 | Plus, a new low-cost, no-lab required COVID-19 antibody test that could set the stage for more |
| 0:47.4 | personalized vaccination plans, and a new drill-wrap duo made up of old white British men. |
| 0:55.8 | Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. |
| 1:00.7 | Well, this is your reminder that on Monday evening, NASA will be live streaming their first ever time |
| 1:07.7 | knocking a spacecraft into an asteroid on purpose. Now, just to be clear, while NASA |
| 1:14.1 | TV will be live with commentary and probably talking heads and all that, the visuals will have of |
| 1:20.5 | the asteroid smash will be a series of photos. More on that in a minute. But first, why is NASA doing this? I went into a bit of detail |
| 1:29.9 | last September ahead of the launch of the double asteroid redirection test, or DART. But since |
| 1:36.4 | that was a full year ago, and some details have changed in the 10 months that the craft has been |
| 1:41.5 | floating through space, I figured it was time for an update ahead of the big day. |
| 1:46.6 | So even though the space agency is intentionally hitting the asteroid, the objective isn't to |
| 1:52.6 | blow it to smithereens. That's the old method for averting asteroid impacts with Earth, |
| 1:58.6 | blow them up into pieces small enough to be burnt up by the Earth's |
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