Season 5, Episode 18: How to Move an Asteroid, with Nancy Chabot
19 Nov 2021, 17:19 GMT
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/gravity-assist/gravity-assist-how-to-move-an-asteroid-with-nancy-chabot/
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission, or DART, will deliberately impact a small asteroid called Dimorphos to deflect its orbit around a bigger object, Didymos. Nancy Chabot, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has the details.