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Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Scouting an Asteroid On Episode 235, Les Johnson and Julie Castillo-Rogez describe an experiment that will be deployed from the Artemis I mission to explore a near-Earth asteroid.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Gravity Assist: How to Move an Asteroid, with Nancy Chabot A spacecraft is about to begin its journey to crash into an asteroid on purpose. 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. While this system presents no danger to Earth, an asteroid the size of Dimorphos would cause regional devastation if it hit our planet. DART will demonstrate a potential method of protecting Earth from hazards in the future. Nancy Chabot, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has the details. She also discusses searching for meteorites in Antarctica and discovering the secrets of planet Mercury.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 72, Dawn Mission NASA's Marc Rayman discusses the legacy of the Dawn mission to the two most massive bodies in the main asteroid belt.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Gravity Assist: Lucy and the Space Fossils, with Hal Levison The planets of our solar system didn’t have such stable orbits a few billion years ago. The giant outer planets moved around chaotically in their orbits, and Uranus and Neptune may have even switched places. To get a more complete understanding of the full history of our solar system, NASA is sending a spacecraft called Lucy to investigate the Trojans, mysterious small objects that share an orbit of the Sun with Jupiter. Principal investigator Hal Levison of the Southwest Research Institute’s branch in Boulder, Colorado, discusses this exciting mission, launching Oct. 16, 2021.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Gravity Assist: A Special Delivery of Life’s Building Blocks, with Jason Dworkin When Earth was just a baby, meteors and asteroids rained down, delivering all sorts of chemicals to our developing planet. These small objects could have delivered the chemicals needed to spark life on Earth for the first time. The OSIRIS-REx mission will collect and return a sample from asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old fossil of the early solar system. By looking at pieces of Bennu in laboratories, scientists will be able to look at its composition and see whether some of the building blocks of life came from objects like Bennu.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Season 2, Episode 4 - Deflecting Disaster Unlike the dinosaurs, we have a space program. There are many ways we could steer an asteroid off its path towards Earth.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Bracing For A Crash If a big asteroid is heading our way, how does NASA prepare for the oncoming disaster?

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Season 2, Episode 2 - Impact What happens when a giant asteroid hits Earth?

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet Season Two, Episode 1 - The Sky Is Falling On February 15, 2003, the sky exploded in Russia. In this second season of the On a Mission podcast, instead of focusing on a single mission, we’re going to look at space rocks, also known as asteroids, from the view of many missions.