Why NASA just destroyed a simulated New York City with a huge fake asteroid. - NBCNewsMACH
After a make-believe reconnaissance spacecraft launched in 2021 determined that the asteroid was on a direct course for Denver, NASA and the space agencies of Europe, Russia, China and Japan built and launched six equally fictitious spacecraft to slam into the asteroid in 2024 and knock it off course.mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test
The fictional fleet of kinetic impactors hit their mark and pushed the asteroid off course. But the effort knocked off a 200-foot-wide fragment that continued toward Earth. NASA's calculations showed that the object would hit somewhere along a band of land stretching from Nebraska to the Atlantic Ocean. Ten days before impact — and on the last day of the conference — astronomers announced that the asteroid fragment would make a direct hit on Central Park, in the heart of Manhattan.
"This is a disaster of unprecedented proportion," said Clark Chapman, a senior scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado."There are evacuation plans that exist for New York City right now — but not to perhaps this scale."If a dangerous asteroid were actually headed toward the U.S., and efforts to deflect or destroy it were unsuccessful, NASA would work with FEMA to help it understand what kind of damage to expect.
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