On September 26 we are going to deliberately ram an asteroid with a spaceship. It's a test of concept for our future planetary defense system.
We'll get a ringside view courtesy of an Italian cubesat that is basically the cameraman to watch the test.
In addition to testing the system, we will do some science...we'll learn more about binary asteroids. The test is Monday evening...I'll be busy, but hopefully will find out how it went soon enough.
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