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Ptah

(33,480 posts) Tue Sep 27, 2022, 05:50 PM Sep 2022

Asteroid Smashing Looks Like Nothing You Ever Imagined

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Asteroid Smashing Looks Like Nothing You Ever Imagined (Original Post) Ptah Sep 2022 OP

Secondary spacecraft Ptah Sep 2022 #1

So it took 10 months from launch to impact. 3Hotdogs Sep 2022 #2

Asteroid or giant baklava? GreenWave Sep 2022 #3

This event just blows me away. Hit something 6.8 million miles away, record the images mitch96 Sep 2022 #4

Nice to see a followup video...nt Wounded Bear Sep 2022 #5

Ptah

(33,480 posts)

1. Secondary spacecraft

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 07:03 PM

Sep 2022

Secondary spacecraft
Main article: LICIACube

LICIACube CubeSat, a companion satellite of the DART spacecraft
The Italian Space Agency (ASI) contributed a secondary spacecraft called LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids), a small CubeSat that piggybacked with DART and separated on 11 September 2022, 15 days before impact. It will try to acquire images of the impact and ejecta as it drifts past the asteroid. LICIACube will communicate directly with Earth, sending back images of the ejecta after the Dimorphos flyby. LICIACube is equipped with two optical cameras, dubbed LUKE and LEIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test#Secondary_spacecraft

3Hotdogs

(13,343 posts)

2. So it took 10 months from launch to impact.

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 07:09 PM

Sep 2022

Amazing.

GreenWave

(8,989 posts)

3. Asteroid or giant baklava?

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 07:18 PM

Sep 2022

mitch96

(14,606 posts)

4. This event just blows me away. Hit something 6.8 million miles away, record the images

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 07:34 PM

Sep 2022

Have telescopes on Earth view it and then send another spacecraft to see what damage was done.. Amazing.. The trick is to see if the small moon actually changed course...
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Wounded Bear

(60,590 posts)

5. Nice to see a followup video...nt

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 07:38 PM

Sep 2022

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