University of Maryland researchers were part of a team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, which played a big part in confirming that DART actually worked.
A placard hangs on the wall during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test Technology Media Workshop Telecon Briefing and tour at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, on September 12, 2022, ahead of the September 26 p"It was a theory that we have now proven to be a working concept," University of Maryland Senior Research Scientist Tony Farnham told FOX 5 Monday evening.
It’s not purely hypothetical either. Just this past January, a truck-sized asteroid passed just above the southern tip of South America, according to NASA. Officials said the asteroid was roughly ten times closer than most communication satellites.NASA Planetary Science Division Deputy Director Eric Ianson joined us with more on the DART mission to redirect potentially dangerous asteroids.
"We can’t correct for hurricanes, we can’t change earthquakes," Farnham explained, "but this is a potentially problematic disaster scenario that we might be able to avoid if we have enough warning time."
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