The DART asteroid impact mission begins, with Nancy Chabot

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The DART mission begins its journey that will end when it smashes into an asteroid, demonstrating how we might save Earth from a devastating impact.

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0:00.0	DART departs for a date with destiny, this week on Planetary Radio.
0:10.0	Too much alliteration?
0:12.0	Welcome.
0:13.0	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our
0:17.5	solar system and beyond.
0:20.3	The launch window for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission opens shortly after 1 a.m. Eastern
0:26.9	time on November 24th.
0:29.8	Like all planetary science missions, it has been a long time coming and is the work
0:34.3	of many.
0:35.8	Unlike any previous mission, it will attempt to change the course of a small asteroid by
0:41.2	slamming into it at 6.6 kilometers per second or 15,000 miles per hour.
0:48.8	Demonstrating this capability might change the course of future history.
0:53.9	DART coordination lead Nancy Shabo is back to prepare us for this journey.
0:58.8	Jupiter's moon IO is impacted by asteroids, but you can rarely see the craters they leave,
1:05.4	that's because it is constantly being resurfaced by volcanoes.
1:10.0	And that's just one of the solar system's volcanic worlds that my colleague, Ray Paleta,
1:15.3	has written about.
1:16.6	She'll join me in a couple of minutes.
1:18.6	Down the line, Bruce Betz and I will introduce you to the Planetary Society member who outbid
1:23.6	the competition in our recent auction.
1:26.3	His dubious reward?
1:28.6	I mean Bruce and me on this week's What's Up?
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