I'm notoriously squeamish about "we're all going to die!" movies, so the only reason I did sit through it was because it was Bruce Willis's week on Hot Toasty Rag. none of them wanna pay taxes again.īelieve it or not, I managed to escape the 1990s without sitting through Armageddon. Truman: Sure, I think we can, uh, take care of. Yeah, he'd like to stay in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House for the summer. Harry Stamper: Um, Bear would like to stay at the. Um - hey, you guys wouldn't be able to tell us who actually killed Kennedy, would ya? Um, Chick wants a full week's Emperor's Package at Caesar's Palace. Not sure if that's gonna work, but, uh, let's see what else.
Harry Stamper: Uh, Noonan's got two women friends that he'd like to see made American citizens no questions asked. Harry Stamper: I'll-I'll tell 'em Oscar, you got it. Oscar: Fifty-six tickets in seven states. nothin' really big, uh, just- Well, as an example, uh, uh, Oscar here, he's got some outstanding parking tickets. Harry Stamper: Well, there's uh, few things here, uh. Knowing exactly how much will help us plan any future asteroid-deflection missions - not surprisingly, there isn't a lot of existing science on ramming your spacecraft into space rocks.Harry Stamper: They'll do it.
This will change the speed of the moonlet by a mere fraction of a percent, but enough that its orbit period will be affected measurably. It's one large-ish asteroid, approximately 780 meters across - that's Didymos proper - and a 160-meter "moonlet" in its orbit.Īs the moonlet is more typical of the type likely to threaten Earth - there being more asteroids that are that size and not easily observed - we will be testing the possibility of intercepting one by smashing into it at nearly 15,000 miles per hour. The DART mission, managed by the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (!), involves sending a pair of satellites out to a relatively nearby pair of asteroids, known as the Didymos binary. NASA has a launch date for that most Hollywood of missions, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which is basically a dry run of the movie "Armageddon." Unlike the film, this will not involve nukes, oil rigs or Aerosmith, but instead is a practical test of our ability to change the trajectory of an asteroid in a significant and predictable way.
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