Uh oh...we made it mad...

[Debi]

Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash

A school teacher and his students have discovered that an asteroid deliberately hit by a Nasa spacecraft is behaving in a weird way.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[garnetsilver]

If they have found a way to change the asteroid's trajectory, maybe this will come in handy if any of that space junk comes our way!

 

[Debi]

If they have found a way to change the asteroid's trajectory, maybe this will come in handy if any of that space junk comes our way!

Or if we knock it wrong it may decide to head at us...sigh.

 

[Ragnar0711]

Or if we knock it wrong it may decide to head at us...sigh.

I agree. It takes a lot of mind blowing Math to get a correct heading :O

 

[Lynne]

I am glad that NASA is at least working on deflection ideas. We don’t want to get hit for sure.

 

[Paulm]

I am glad that NASA is at least working on deflection ideas. We don’t want to get hit for sure.

but, now theres an alien species out there going, "well, asteroid 5407365-1 will not be a threat for another 4 milli.... ugh, hold on, it just changed and is expected to hit our planet next thursday.......".......

 

[Debi]

but, now theres an alien species out there going, "well, asteroid 5407365-1 will not be a threat for another 4 milli.... ugh, hold on, it just changed and is expected to hit our planet next thursday.......".......

Something I had not thought of and that's disturbing!